Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Mr. Q's News
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Remembering the life of Maurice Pope, and his Classicist’s Creed.
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How the weeks after the 15 July coup attempt felt like in the rural hinterland of a major Turkish province.
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How to survive attending Davos without a participants’ badge – and what this summit of the global one per cents really feels like.
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An appreciation of Istanbul’s ad hoc, chaotic pleasures, written as I leave the city after 28 years.
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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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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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Sometimes something can worry you for years, and you don’t quite know what to do about it. Robert Fisk’s writing is one of those things for me. His stories are compellingly fluent, fabulously channel Middle Eastern victimhood, and satisfyingly cast grit in the eye of Western governments’ hypocrisy. And yet against this I always have…
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Informed by his State Department employers that he could either serve in a Middle East war zone or watch his career wilt, Peter Van Buren chose active service helping to rebuild Iraq. His year embedded in Provincial Reconstruction Teams in the notorious Sunni triangle resulted in We Meant Well: how I helped lose the battle for…
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Fine 30 Sept 2011 New York Times review (here) of what looks like an important book on how President George W. Bush never discussed whether the Iraq war was a good idea, or, indeed, how nobody knows the answer to the question of what the reason for the war was at all! Some excerpts from…
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