About Rory Stewart
Interview: Rory Stewart: The Post-Imperialist Poster Hero
Chris Lydon, visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown Unviersity and host of ...Open Source, interviews Rory Stewart. (August 27, 2008)
Biography
Rory Stewart was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Malaysia. He served briefly as an officer in the British Army (the Black Watch), studied history and philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and then joined the British Diplomatic Service. He worked in the British Embassy in Indonesia and then, in the wake of the Kosovo campaign, as the British Representative in Montenegro. In 2000 he took two years off and began walking from Turkey to Bangladesh. He covered 6000 miles on foot alone across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal -- a journey described in The Places in Between .
In 2003, he became the coalition Deputy Governor of Maysan and Dhi Qar -- two provinces in the Marsh Arab region of Southern Iraq. He has written for a range of publications including the New York Times Magazine , the London Review of Books , the Sunday Times , the Guardian , the Financial Times and Granta . In 2004, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and became a Fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard University. He now lives in Kabul, where he is the Chief Executive of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation , which is investing in the regeneration of the historic commercial centre of Kabul, providing basic services, saving historic buildings and constructing a new bazaar and galleries for traditional craft businesses.
Biography from http://www.rorystewartbooks.com/rory_stewart.htm
More Information on the Book and the Author
Stewart, Rory. "Where Less is More: [Op-Ed]." New York Times [New York, N.Y.] 23 Jul 2007, Late Edition (East Coast): A 19. ProQuest National Newspapers Expanded. ProQuest. Brown University Library, Providence, RI 10 Jun 2008.
Authors@Google: Rory Stewart, Stewart's presentation of Places in Between (talk, photos, and Q&A with audience)
Interview: Rory Stewart on "Charlie Rose Tomorrow" [YouTube]
Bissell, Tom. "A walk across Afghanistan." Rev. of: Places in Between. New York Times Book Review 11 Jun. 2006: 7.1. ProQuest National Newspapers Expanded. ProQuest. Brown University Library, Providence, RI 10 Jun 2008.
Wiltz, Teresa. "Trekking through Afghanistan is no walk in the park; Rory Stewart's two-year adventure on foot in the Mideast and Asia results in a book, not so much enlightenment: [Home edition]." Los Angeles Times. 11 Aug. 2006, E.18. ProQuest National Newspapers Expanded. ProQuest. Brown University Library, Providence, RI 10 Jun 2008.