Books by Nilo Tabrizy
“I admire this book for many reasons – chief amongst them its extraordinary bravery. Fatemeh Jamalpour’s reporting from the streets of Iran – written while female protesters were being brutalised and killed all around her – is exactly the kind of courageous, first-hand journalism George Orwell was renowned for. Especially relevant right now, given the ongoing Iranian war, the book lays bare the Islamic Republic’s savage repression of women’s rights and its wider assault on basic freedoms. The dual narrative structure works brilliantly, weaving Jamalpour’s raw, on-the-ground accounts with Nilo Tabrizy’s meticulous, desk-based research whilst exiled from her home country.” Read more...
The Best Politics Books of 2026: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Interviews where books by Nilo Tabrizy were recommended
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Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
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The Elements of Power
by Nicolas Niarchos -
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Israel: What Went Wrong?
by Omer Bartov -
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
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The Escape from Kabul
by Karen Bartlett
The Best Politics Books of 2026: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by The judges of the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Best Politics Books of 2026: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by The judges of the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The books shortlisted for the 2026 Orwell Prizes, the UK’s most prestigious awards for writing about politics, have been announced. “As judges, we returned again and again to what George Orwell means to us: clarity of prose and unflinching intellectual bravery,” said Rohan Silva, chair of the judges for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, awarded annually for a nonfiction book. We’ve listed the brilliant books they chose below, from Cold War betrayals and the partition of India to the conflicts still going on in the world today.
