Christopher de Bellaigue

<p>Christopher de Bellaigue has worked as a journalist in South Asia and the Middle East, writing for the <em>Economist</em> and the <em>Financial Times</em>, the <em>Independent</em>, and the <em>New York Review of Books</em>. His first book, <em>In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs</em>, was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, and his second, <em>Rebel Land</em>, was short-listed for the 2010 Orwell Prize. He and his wife divide their time between London and Tehran.</p>