Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin is the Middle East editor of The Times Literary Supplement and the author of many books, including Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography. His most recent novel, My Life Is Like a Fairy Tale, was published in 2019, and his tenth novel, The Runes Have Been Cast, will be published in 2021.

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