Max Rodenbeck

[7] Following boarding school in Massachusetts, he studied Arabic and Islamic History at the American University in Cairo.

[8] During his 15[9] years in the post he covered events ranging from the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the US occupation of Iraq,[10] to the failed revolutions of 2009 in Iran,[11] and the Arab Spring in 2011.

Rodenbeck's historical portrait of Egypt's capital, Cairo: The City Victorious, was first published by Picador in the UK, and Alfred A. Knopf in New York, where it met wide critical acclaim.

The work "traces the life of Cairo from birth...through the heights of medieval splendor, and on to the present day".

[21] Rodenbeck has also been a regular panelist at the annual Jaipur Literary Festival in Rajasthan, India, and was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 2015.