Dilip Hiro
| Dilip Hiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | Larkana, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Author, journalist & commentator |
Dilip Hiro is a British Pakistani author, journalist, and commentator. He has published 35 books (available in 88 editions at Amazon.com: Dilip Hiro) and contributed to another 18. Hiro is an expert on the politics and history of the Middle East and South Asia, and his books cover a wide range of issues.
Born in the Indian sub-continent, Hiro was educated in India, Britain, and the United States, where he received a Master's degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Hiro settled in London in the mid-1960s, where he became a full-time writer, journalist, and commentator. Three of his earlier books were re-issued by the publisher in 2013. He is the editor of Babur Nama: Journal of Emperor Babur, a world classic that has been preserved since 1530.
Hiro has also written scripts for the theatre, cinema, and television.
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In Britain, France and Belgium his articles have appeared in many leading publications, including the Sunday Times, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Guardian Unlimited, Daily Telegraph Magazine, The Times, Independent, Independent on Sunday, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal Europe, Times Literary Supplement, Economist, New Statesman, and Spectator. In North America he has published articles in inter alia the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Toronto Star, Nation, Washington Spectator, Merip Middle East Report, Atlantic Community Quarterly, Global Agenda, and Journal of the World Economic Forum. He was the chief analyst on the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian and Islamic affairs, and Terrorism for the Rome-based Inter Press Service International Features Agency (1992–99), and the London-based Gemini News Service features agency (1999–2002). He is a frequent contributor to the following online magazines: the Guardian’s Commentisfree; Yale University’s Yale Global; and the New York-based Nation Institute’s website Tom Dispatch.
In India, Dilip Hiro has produced a Urdu-Hindi play Tale of the Taj (Shah Jahan-o-Mumtaz) and was performed in Delhi and Gurgaon.
He is a frequent commentator on the Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Islamic affairs on various radio and television channels based in America, Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, France, Ireland and the Vatican. These include ABC (of Australia), ABC Network (USA), Al Jazeera (English) TV, American Public Radio, BBC Radio and Television, BBC News 24, BBC World Service Radio, BBC World (satellite), Brazilian TV, CBC (Canada), CBS Network (USA), Channel 4 (UK), Channel 5 (UK), CNN (satellite), CNN-Turk, C-SPAN TV (USA), Democracy Now TV (USA), Fox News Channel (USA), GMTV, MSNBC TV (USA), National Public Radio (USA), NBC TV (USA), ORF (Austria), Pacifica Radio Network (USA), Press TV, Radio France International (France), RTÉ (Ireland), Sky TV (satellite), and the Vatican Radio.
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