Dilip Hiro

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

Hiro is the author of twenty-eight titles, including his most recent book Iran Today (2006) and The Timeline History of India (2006). He has also written a Dictionary of the Middle East (1996). 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.

He is also a journalist, contributing to the Observer, New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post and is a commentator on the BBC, Sky News and CNN and various radio stations.