Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: Reviews
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CEO Nick Grono gives his recipe for success in nonprofit leadership and common pitfalls to avoid.
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“Fascinating” – Publishers’ Weekly. “Deeply engaged” – Kirkus Reviews. “A very good book” – The Economist. “Terrific” – The Guardian. “Deceptively innocent” – Le Monde.
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A new, updated, UK paperback edition of Hugh Pope’s 2010 book ‘Dining with al-Qaeda: Making Sense of the Middle East’ was published in September 2020.
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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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“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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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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A short review praising Rendez-vous avec al-Qaida in Le Monde Diplomatique’s February 2013 edition, and its translation into English.
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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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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…
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