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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Vali Nasr |Christopher de Bellaigue |Suzanne Maloney |Richard N. Haass
Since October 7, 2023, the long arm of Iran has seemingly been everywhere in the crises that have beset the Middle East. With its eye on Hezbollah, Iran’s heavily armed Shiite ally in Lebanon, Israel was wholly unprepared for the devastating ground assault launched from Gaza by Hamas, a Palestinian militant group that was also backed by the Islamic Republic.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Christopher de Bellaigue
In 2002 Israel revealed to the world the existence of an advanced Iranian nuclear program. The previous year, in his first State of the Union address after September 11, President George W.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Christopher de Bellaigue
NowGermany orders 3 Iranian consulates to shut after an Iranian German prisoner is executedBERLIN (AP) — Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Christopher de Bellaigue
The valley where I live is just inside the borders of the Lake District National Park, in the county of Cumbria in northwestern England.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Christopher de Bellaigue |Alice Arnold. Originally
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2019: Countries around the world are making it easier to choose the time and manner of your death. But doctors in the world’s euthanasia capital are starting to worry about the consequences.
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May 20, 2024 | 
ft.com | Christopher de Bellaigue
The birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and an object of veneration in Islam, the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean Sea is perhaps...
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
alexnowrasteh.com | Christopher de Bellaigue |Milton Friedman |David Karp |Alex Nowrasteh
I set a book target every year and record the titles and authors in an Excel spreadsheet. This satisfies my desire to count things, complements my reading habits, and keeps me on track to learn about new and different topics. Below, I discuss some of the books I’ve read, briefly review and compare them, and include a table of all the books and authors. My goal for 2023 was to read 60 books cover-to-cover.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
nybooks.com | Christopher de Bellaigue
In The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan turns the climate into a historical character whose relationship with the other characters—us—needs rescuing from obscurity. He aims to “expand the horizons of how we look at history” and to “reinsert climate back into the story of the past,” not by interpreting floods and droughts as evidence of divine displeasure, as our ancestors did, but by using the latest climate science to learn more about ourselves.
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May 17, 2023 | 
freitag.de | Christopher de Bellaigue
Es ist der 16. Dezember 2021. Auf einer asphaltierten Landebahn außerhalb von Salinas, Kalifornien, sammelt sich eine Gruppe Männer. Sie sehen aus, wie man sich Silicon-Valley-Start-up-Leute eben vorstellt, in betont lässigen Markenklamotten. Vor ihnen steht eine schwarz glänzende Kapsel auf drei spindeldürren Beinen, eine Mischung aus einem Zäpfchen und einem Trolley für Golfer, dazu ein V-förmiger Schwanz wie der eines Buckelwals.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
internazionale.it | Christopher de Bellaigue
Il 16 dicembre 2021 un gruppo di uomini vestiti in modo informale, sobrio e firmato – com’è tipico delle startup della Silicon valley – si è riunito su una pista di atterraggio alle porte di Salinas, in California, negli Stati Uniti. Di fronte a loro c’era una capsula nera e lucida appoggiata su tre gambe sottili, una specie d’incrocio tra una supposta e un carrello da golf, con una coda a V come quella di una balenottera.
