Hugh Pope

Author, Reporter, Editor

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Writer of books on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Formerly Director of Communications & Outreach and Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for International Crisis Group. Ex-Turkey & Middle East staff correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Month: May 2011

  • “Incredibly timely … I want to read it again” – A Traveler’s Library

    A lovely review to brighten a writer’s morning, from Vera Marie Badertscher at the website ‘A Travelers Library’ – original available here. Books for the Arab World in Troubled Times Vera Marie Badertscher Every Monday for a while now, I’ve been writing about books that might shed some light on the current internal struggles of…

  • 11 May book talk & cocktail at Kadir Has University, Istanbul

    All welcome! The final lecture of the 2010-2011 Kadir Has University Culture and the Arts Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of American Culture and Literature, will be presented by Hugh Pope, who will discuss his most recent book, Dining with Al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East. Hugh Pope has…