Leon McCarron

Nov 7, 2024 | news.yale.edu | Mike Cummings |Jessica Faieta |Leon McCarron |Rebecca Adda-Dontoh

In March 2023, Rebecca Adda-Dontoh, the United Nations resident coordinator for Malawi, experienced firsthand the kind of destruction that may become more common as a result of climate change when Cyclone Freddy ravaged the southeastern African country. The powerful cyclone, the longest lasting on record, killed more than 1,400 people in Malawi and displaced 659,000 others. “Malawi is very vulnerable to climate change,” Adda-Dontoh said.

Oct 14, 2024 | shepherd.com | Adrian McKinty |FX Holden |Leon McCarron |Ben Fox

Myfavorite read in 2024…This is one of the best detective series I’ve read since Bosch. There is something about Detective Sean Duffy that I find utterly fascinating. He has a personal sense of justice (like Bosch), and he has an intense desire to see it applied no matter the cost. And as a Catholic policeman in a Protestant system, the tension of being this one-man island is heavy. The entire series is set during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, which makes for an exciting backdrop.

Mar 20, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad |Alice Albinia |Mary Colwell |Leon McCarron

As a judge for the 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards you’re in an excellent position to advise us on whether it has been a good year for travel books. Yes, I think it has been a very good year for travel writing, as illustrated by the books on the shortlist. One of the great pleasures of being on the judging panel is that you get to read so widely. The finalists cover an incredibly diverse range of topics, places, perspectives and voices, which is wonderful.

Feb 11, 2024 | wrmea.org | Election Year--All Senators |Leon McCarron |Pegasus Books |Delinda C. Hanley

All books featured in this new section are available from Middle East Books and More, the nation’s preeminent bookstore on the ­Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. www.MiddleEastBooks.com • (202) 939-6050 ext. 1 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2023, pp. 64-67 Middle East Books Review By Leon McCarron, Pegasus Books, 2023, hardcover, 352 pp. MEB $28.95 The Embassy of Iraq to the United States hosted a book talk and panel discussion on Nov.

Nov 10, 2023 | thedailybeast.com | Leon McCarron

Excerpted fromWounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization: 30−32 Shirqat / Assur River miles: 457 Members of the Iraqi army would accompany us now all the way through Salahaddin Governorate. A man from the mukhabarat escorted us from Gayara to Shirqat. He wore a pork pie hat and a polo shirt and had the usual bulge in his belt. His deputy had a beige suit, skinny necktie, and wore a pencil moustache and trilby, like a fifties gangster.