He served the as the Times’ correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2006 and the paper’s Beirut bureau chief from 2007 to 2011. Worth was an editor of the Washington Monthly from 1998-1999 until he joined the Times as a reporter on the metropolitan desk in 2000. He continues to be a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. Last year, Worth was a public policy fellow in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Middle East Program, where he worked on his forthcoming book A Rage for Order: the Middle East in Turmoil from Tahrir Square to ISIS which will be released in April from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.