Robert Forsyth Worth is an American journalist and former chief of the New York Times Beirut bureau.
He is the author of Rage for Order which received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Fareed Zakaria, Kenneth M.
Pollack, Bartle Bull, The Economist magazine, among others.Worth became a New York Times reporter at the metropolitan desk in 2000.
He was the Times correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2006, and their Beirut bureau chief from 2007 until 2011.
He has also contributed to the New York Review of Books.
From 2014 to 2015 he was a public policy fellow in the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars while writing Rage for Order.
While there he worked on "The Arab Revolts and their Legacy" project.
"Born and raised" in Manhattan, Worth is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has an M.A.
and a Ph.D.
(in English) from Princeton University He is married to Alice Clapman, an attorney.