23 - 29 June 2025 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury
Justin Marozzi has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, he is a Senior Research Fellow in Journalism and the Popular Understanding of History at Buckingham University and an advisor to the Middle East Association. His previous books include South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (2001), the bestselling Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (2019), Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004) and The Arab Conquests: The Spread of Islam and the First Caliphates (2021). Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (2014) won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and was praised by the judges as ‘a truly monumental achievement’.
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