Justin Marozzi is a Councillor of the Royal Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. He has broadcast for BBC Radio Four, and regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, for which he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. His previous books include the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year (2004), and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus. Justin Marozzi is a Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. A former Financial Times and Economist foreign correspondent, he has spent much of the past two decades living and working in the Middle East. His previous books include South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (2001), the bestselling Tamberlane: Sword of Islam (2004), The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus (2008) and Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (2014), which won the Ondaatje Prize.