Justin Marozzi

Justin Marozzi (born 1970) is an English journalist, historian and travel writer.^[1]

Marozzi studied at Cambridge University, where he gained a Starred Double First in History in 1993. He has also earned degrees in broadcast journalism from Cardiff University and in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.^[2] As a journalist, he worked for the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist. He was also a contributing editor of The Spectator.^[3]

Marozzi's publications include: South from Barbary (2001), an account of his explorations through the Libyan Sahara; Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004) which was a highly regarded biography of the Mongol conqueror Timur and was listed as a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year; Faces of Exploration (2006), an account of famous explorers, was followed by The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus (2008), a biography of the world's first historian; Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (2014); Islamic Empires - Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (2019), and; A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and its People (2023).

Marozzi was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

• 2015 Ondaatje Prize for Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood^[4]

• Justin Marozzi's website