Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
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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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When I began to work as a reporter in Turkey in 1987, David Barchard was the correspondent of the Financial Times and the outsider that everyone turned for an independent interpretation of Turkish affairs. He died on Christmas Day after an accidental fall in his native Yorkshire, aged 73. His old friend İlhan Nebioğlu broke…
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How Hugh Pope’s book “Dining with al-Qaeda: Making Sense of the Middle East” will help you better understand the flow of events there.
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In the best tradition of books written by foreign correspondents, Hannah Lucinda Smith offers a journey in brave and well-informed company. Whether explaining the grip of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Turkey, dodging Islamists in northern Syria or shining light into the backrooms of London’s relationship with Ankara, she’s a companion who writes frankly and…
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My uncle, John Acton Garle (29.6.1936-9.4.2019), died a year ago in a care home in Fareham, Hampshire. I was with him, for which I’m grateful, now that we’ve seen such heart-searing scenes of separation due to the coronavirus epidemic. Several members of our family were able to join together for his cremation in nearby Porchester.…
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Review of Mike Giglio’s excellent, addictive account of seven years of fascination for the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIS), its recruits, its origins and its enemies.
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