Hugh Pope

Author, Reporter, Editor

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Writer of books on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Formerly Director of Communications & Outreach and Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for International Crisis Group. Ex-Turkey & Middle East staff correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Tag: Middle East journalism

  • Anthropology, Reporters and the Middle East

    A day out in Ankara with Dutch anthropologist-turned-media-pundit Joris Luyendijk, talking about his book Hello Everybody! and the state of media coverage of the Middle East

  • “I don’t read Hugh Pope” – Robert Fisk

    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…