Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Tag: Iran
-
First sparks can be hard to fan into bright lights. Especially when they’re needed to banish dark demons lurking in the violent history of Iraqi Kurdistan’s six million people. Five years ago, a few Iraqi Kurdish health professionals and friends of Iraqi Kurdistan, mostly in Britain, had an idea. They wanted to introduce the first…
-
The US bombing of Iranian targets today got me thinking about how US actions in the Middle East have often propelled it into places that it had no apparent inkling about beforehand. I studied Persian at university, lived for year as a journalist in Iran and made several trips to the country during three decades…
-
Making better sense of the Middle East is only one email away.
-
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.
-
To offer a small antidote to the mutual incomprehension that feeds the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, here’s a favourite chapter from my book Dining with al-Qaeda. In Iran, it’s best for Americans to know that what they see and what they hear is rarely what they’ll get. Especially when it comes to the…
-
Now that talks of a kind are beginning again between Iran and the West on the Iranian nuclear program, anyone wanting the back story behind Tehran’s thinking should dip into with Scott Peterson’s excellent book “Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran – a journey behind the headlines” (Simon and Schuster, 2010). Reading it is to…
Hugh Pope 