Robert F. Worth
Robert F. Worth
Contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Pseudo-Arabist. Opinions here are my own.Source
CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
1 reviews
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
0 reviews

RECENT ARTICLES

Sort by:
No Rating
The President, the Soccer Hooligans and an Underworld ‘House of Horrors’

The President, the Soccer Hooligans and an Underworld ‘House of Horrors’

On a Saturday night in early March 2021, Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, appeared on live television, seated at a long wooden table and flanked by the country’s prime minister and interior minister. Vucic said he had an important announcement to make about the arrest of an underworld gang responsible for multiple murders. The interior minister warned viewers to move their children away from the TV. A series of images flashed on the screen behind him: a severed head, a headless body, a torso. Vucic spoke slowly, often pausing and staring ponderously at the table in front of him, his...

May 3, 2023
Share
Save
Review
No Rating
Crafting the Koran | Robert F. Worth

Crafting the Koran | Robert F. Worth

Welcome( | )Welcome( | )NYR DailyIn the beginning, long before ISIS or al-Qaeda, before the smiling suicide bombers and black flags and all the other lurid signposts we have come to associate with Islam, there were manuscripts. They emerged from the desert in the seventh and eighth centuries AD: yellowed animal-skin parchments inscribed with Arabic letters that proclaim a faith in one God. Some were written on the shoulder bones of camels, or stripped palm-branches. No one knows who wrote them. They may have come from many hands in disparate places. But at some point, a powerful story...

February 9, 2017
Share
Save
Review
  • Total 2 items
  • 1
OUTLETS
nytimes.com

nytimes.com

CRITIC
img-trusted
87%
PUBLIC
img-trusted
68%
nybooks.com

nybooks.com

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A