Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Tag: iraq
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How a new Kurdistan Mental Health Project aims to help Iraqi Kurds overcome the traumatic scars of decades of violent conflict.
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Making better sense of the Middle East is only one email away.
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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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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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The penultimate chapter of Dining with al-Qaeda focuses on my experiences during the Iraq war with the Yezidi community, who straddle the northeastern corner of Iraq and patches of southeast Turkey. These 500,000 people seemed to me to be as representative as any of the other pieces of the Iraqi mosaic before, during and after…
