Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Author: Hugh Pope
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A review of Jessica JJ Lutz’s book De Nederlandse Bruid (De Geus, 2014) and endorsements of ‘The Bride from Holland’ by Joris Luyendijk, Bram Vermeulen, Stine Jensen, Ebru Umar and Fidan Ekiz.
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Some travelogue and pictures illustrating how far I think the Kurds have come in the past three decades since I first started visiting their homelands in Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.
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Originally posted on From the archive: Chapter 17 THE YEZIDI HERESY An Alternative Approach to Military Liberation – We rejoiced at the rising Nile, then it drowned us. — EGYPTIAN PROVERB – Hugh Pope and Sagvan Murad in front of Yezidi shrine Sheikh Adi. Lalish, 2003. A good introduction is an invaluable asset. My fixer, Sagvan…
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A day out in Ankara with Dutch anthropologist-turned-media-pundit Joris Luyendijk, talking about his book Hello Everybody! and the state of media coverage of the Middle East
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Review of former Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith’s excellent book on his eight years in and about Afghanistan, which brilliantly conveys both the writers learning about and the lessons from an utterly misconceived conflict.
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“An astute warning from an authoritative voice about the clichés and blind spots that distort coverage of the Middle East.” Review by William Armstrong of Hugh Pope’s Dining with al-Qaeda in Hürriyet Daily News
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In 2011, a book review monthly sent me Michelle Campos’s Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine, asking for 5,000 words on all that it might mean. It set my head spinning, a dense, comprehensive battery of sources writing in 1908-1914, making me feel like I was in the same busy conference as…
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Review of Dining with al-Qaeda in German by Walter Posch, recommending the book for richly colourful readability and being one of the few books that explains why the Arab uprisings occurred.
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Two French journalists set out on the trail of the massacres and deportations of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, and return with a book of extraordinary discoveries of Armenian survival in modern Turkey and a belief that today’s Turkish denial of an Armenian genocide is an extension of the early era’s crime.
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The June 2013 unrest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square has some extraordinary links with the 1909 events in the same place – Islamist vs. Turkish nationalist, damaged trees and an injured American journalist.
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