Megan Gibson
Executive Editor, Foreign at The New Statesman
Executive Editor, Foreign @NewStatesman Previously: @MonocleMag @TIME.
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3 days ago |
newstatesman.com | Megan Gibson
It’s impossible to know what, precisely, sparked the change. For the past 20 months we have seen horrifying images and video clips depicting the death and suffering of innocent Palestinians in Gaza – and yet so many in the West defended Israel’s brutal assault. The bombing of hospitals, the targeted shooting of children, the slow starvation of an entire population was, until very recently, met with near silence from some corners or tepid calls for a ceasefire from others.
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1 month ago |
newstatesman.com | Megan Gibson
In the end, Donald Trump decided it. On 28 April Canadians elected Mark Carney to be their next prime minister, a dramatic turnaround for his Liberal party, which only eight weeks ago seemed to be headed for a wipeout. At the time of writing it was still unclear whether the Liberals had won enough seats to form a majority government but, nevertheless, Carney will stay on as prime minister. The Liberals astonishing rebound in the eyes of voters comes down to three factors.
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1 month ago |
newstatesman.com | Megan Gibson
On the morning of 15 December 2010, Time magazine revealed its person of the year: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. In a glowing profile, the magazine trumpeted the tech founder’s mission of connecting the world and the breakneck speed of Facebook’s growth, while largely glossing over the then-mounting concerns the wider public had about social media and privacy.
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2 months ago |
newstatesman.com | Megan Gibson
In 2004, the Arab Israeli advocacy group Adalah took up a case on behalf of Islamic religious leaders in Israel. Though the country’s 1967 Protection of Holy Sites Law was meant to apply to all religions – and made it a crime to damage any holy site – the dozens of sites designated as holy by Israel were all Jewish.
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2 months ago |
newstatesman.com | Pippa Bailey |Michael Prodger |Finn McRedmond |Megan Gibson
Humans of every religion and none have made pilgrimages since ancient times: for example, the sacred mountain of Tai Shan, 300 miles south of Beijing, has a history of worship dating back to the Neolithic period. Pilgrims sought – and seek – the help of gods, saints and spirits for protection on journeys, spiritual healing or cures for physical ailments, to give thanks, or perhaps to make a political statement.
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