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Events in 2025

Dorchester

Dorchester Literary Festival

Events in 2025

Dorchester

October 20, 2025

Dorset Museum, Dorchester

In conversation with Allan Mallinson, Barnaby Rogerson will be talking about his latest book - The House Divided

Events in 2025

Dorchester

Events in 2025

Oxford Literary Festival

Events in 2025

March 31, 2025
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

Travel writer and historian Barnaby Rogerson looks back at the reasons for the 1,400-year divide between Sunni and Shia and how it has shaped and continues to shape the Middle East.

Events in 2025

Jaipur Literature Festival 2025

Events in 2025

January 31 and February 1, 2025

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Cheriton Talks

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February 22, 2025
St Michael’s Church, Cheriton in Hampshire

Events in 2025

The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival 2025

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April 12, 2025

Events in 2025

February 1-4 2024 – interview with Clare Clark
29 February-3rd March 2024 – interviewed by the books editor, Rose Baring
Canterbury, Kent
22 March, 2024
Interviewed by Dr Martin Latham es here
Candover Valley, Hampshire - interviewed by Rebecca Fletcher, April 25, 2025
May 13, 2025
Interviewed by Nick Laing, founder of Steppes Travel

28 June-7 July 2024, interviewed by Professor Eugene Rogan of St Anthonys, Oxford
Imam Ali: from Concise History to Timeless Mystery, a conversation with Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi, 7 July
9-11 August, 2024, interviewed by Charles Harper, British Ambassador to Jordan and Yemen
3-6 October, interviewed by Lieutenant-General Sir Simon Mayall
3-9th November, interviewed by Turkophile travel writer Jeremy Seal

The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography

The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism

Past talks & interviews

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Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

Bosphorus Review interviews Barnaby Rogerson

Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

We love stumbling across wisdom in all the different ages of humankind, and try to avoid falling into the trap that our contemporary culture is any significant way, wiser than that of our ancestors.

Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

Talks, Travellers & Writers

Bookblogger interviews Barnaby Rogerson

Talks, Travellers & Writers

We look for books that have been written with inner conviction and truth about the world. We want them to observant of others, capable of summing up a spirit of place and catching the moment on the wing.

Talks, Travellers & Writers

Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

Bookblast interviews Barnaby Rogerson & Rose Baring, worker-directors of Eland Publishing

Talks, Travellers & Writers, Featured

Talks, Exhibitions, Islam

“Lifting the Seven Veils - Writing about Islam” - talk given at the British Library during “Sacred” exhibition, 2007

Talks, Exhibitions, Islam

Those who cannot understand the recited verses of Arabic will always be in an outer circle, unable to approach anywhere near to the true understanding and power of the Koran.

Talks, Exhibitions, Islam

Recordings

Barnaby on the Slightly Foxed Podcast

Barnaby with Don McCullin at the Oldie Literary Lunch