Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Author: Hugh Pope
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While researching the history of random selection in democracies, this 1936 book by a French parliamentarian struck me as full of common sense about the problems with elections-based rule.
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My piece for Politico on how the grant of Belgian nationality is healing my sense of being torn apart by Britain’s June 2015 decision to leave the EU.
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Review of and personal reflections about Tim Hannigan’s wonderful book ‘The Travel Writing Tribe’.
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Reflections on my discovery that two of my grandfather’s cousins died fighting near Ypres in Belgium, where I now live. My grandfather was injured in a separate battle nearby.
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Verity and Agatha hate being left behind by their father when he goes off on his travels as a British diplomat. So after he tells his daughters he’s being sent to visit a mountain kingdom in southern Africa, they wangle their way into joining him. When the King’s grand-daughter tells the young sisters of a…
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In 1969, my family left South Africa. My father explains why: a clash between university ideals and state power.
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Why agency reports should anchor the footnotes of history.
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Making better sense of the Middle East is only one email away.
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Manca Juvan is a Slovenian photographer who, among many other projects, is coordinating a new collection of writing to go with her photography in Istanbul to which I hope to contribute. More on that soon, I hope. But Manca also shared a lovely photo of the new cover of my book on making sense of…
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Francis Ghilès, a veteran Algeria and North Africa watcher and ex-Financial Times reporter, kindly gave a warm welcome to the new edition of my book Dining with al-Qaeda: Making Sense of the Middle East, saying it represented “ground-level reporting, bursting with insights“. What made me even happier while talking to Francis was that he said…
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