NEW: Looking forward to welcoming Suzy Hansen @hannahluci.bsky.social to Frontline Club next week for a conversation about their new books. Tickets here 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-discussion-the-long-reach-of-authoritarianism-tickets-1986437808960
How to Lose a Prime Minister in Two Years newlinesmag.com/running-note... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
NEW: "In Silicon Valley, the adage is that technology doubles in power every two years. Britain has managed to find its own version, a new prime minister every couple of years, each somehow less powerful than the last." My latest in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/running-note...
The Iran war will change the #Gulf, in ways that are only now becoming clear. Next week I'll be at Frontline with a stellar panel - Sanam Vakil, Dina Esfandiary, Randa Ghazy and Michael Stephens. We'll talk security, strategy and life. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
Despite the heatwave, the audience at the Frontline Club
@newlinesmag.bsky.social turned out for a fascinating conversation with Arwa Damon, Olesya Khromeychuk on Friday evening. @lsmwilson.bsky.social and I talked conflict, love, patriotism (and Italian socks). 👏
I like these photos Louis James took of me. But I rather worry he's caught me in my auctioneer era. Anyway Tara Kangarlou and I will be there tomorrow with @khalidabdalla.bsky.social @jomanak.bsky.social and Farah Nabulsi. Last few tickets, so, going once... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
"The biggest social problem in Syria is that there is blood between us." @qunfuz.bsky.social, one of the most astute writers on modern Syria, joins me on The Lede to talk revolution, justice and anger. Listen @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/podcast/when...
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Good conversation between @faisalalyafai.bsky.social & Suzy Hansen, particularly on the "fundamental omission of so much information" in news coverage that leaves us with startling un-human understandings of places in headlines – from Turkey to Iran and beyond: newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-...
🎧 Why is the far right—from Russia to Serbia to the US—so titillated by the Eastern Orthodox Church's aura of medieval-ish darkness, its crusader fantasies fueled by the iconography of “Christendom”? @jasminmuj.bsky.social
& @faisalalyafai.bsky.social discuss on the @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast
The Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s cast a long shadow that looms over the current conflict. @dannypostel.bsky.social and @faisalalyafai.bsky.social explain how it gave rise to ideas and slogans like “sacred defense” that continue to shape Tehran's strategies.
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Britain is on the verge of changing prime minister once again, having cycled through leaders with alarming speed since the Brexit vote in 2016. One reason for the revolving door at the top of U.K. pol...
Journalist and author Suzy Hansen joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss what one Istanbul neighborhood reveals about Turkey under Erdoğan, and her new book, "From Life Itself."
