Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Musings
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A farewell bow to my 43 years of reporting notebooks.
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CEO Nick Grono gives his recipe for success in nonprofit leadership and common pitfalls to avoid.
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I’d like to make a bet that Türkiye – the official name for Turkey since 2021 – is about to make a comeback after years of disastrous economic policies, fear-mongering leadership and regional turmoil. Being invited this week by the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels for a discussion with Turkish Treasury & Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek…
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Review of and personal reflections about Tim Hannigan’s wonderful book ‘The Travel Writing Tribe’.
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Having my old Soviet mechanical watch smoothly ticking on my wrist feels like a reunion with an old friend. This one is especially sweet to see back in action. Firstly, it was an inaugural repair job for me by a talented apprentice watchmaker, my nephew-in-law. It is also a gift from the great, late Bill…
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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 Brussels is having to get used to conflict as Europe and Middle East seem to be overlap more and more.
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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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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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