Dilip Hiro

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Dilip Hiro is a playwright and analyst specializing in India and the Islamic world, ranging from Iraq and Lebanon to the Central Asian republics. He was born in 1937 to Hindu parents in Larkana, British India, who migrated to independent India after partition in 1947. He currently lives in London.

Hiro is the author of 30 titles, including his most recent book Blood of the Earth: The Global Battle for Vanishing Oil Resources (2008), described by Steven Poole in the Guardian as "encyclopaedic yet racily readable account of the economy, science and geopolitics of oil over the past century." He is editor of the most recent edition of the Babur Nama: Journal of Emperor Babur (2007). He has also written Secrets and Lies: Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Collapse of American Power in the Middle East (2003, ISBN 1560255560) and a Dictionary of the Middle East (1996). He has contributed to 16 more books, including The World According To TomDispatch (2008). He is noted for his opposition to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, arguing that it will only fuel more fundamentalist terrorism and further destabilize the Middle East.

As a journalist he contributes to The Observer, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post and is a commentator on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, and various radio stations.

His film, Moving Portaits, directed by Horace Ové and produced by Vijay Amarnani, was screened by Channel 4 in 1987.

[edit] Recent publications

Blood of the Earth: The Global Battle for Vanishing Oil Resources (2008)
Babur Nama: Journal of Emperor Babur (2006) (Editor)
Iran Today (2006)
The Timeline History of India (2006)
Secrets and Lies: The True Story of the Iraq War (2005)
The Essential Middle East: A Comprehensive Guide (2003)
War Without End: The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and Global Response (2002)
Neighbors, Not Friends: Iraq and Iran after the Gulf Wars (2001)
Sharing the Promised Land: An Interwoven Tale of Israelis and Palestinians (1997)