Honouring Macedonia’s lost Jewish community
Almost all of Macedonia’s Jews died in the Holocaust. Now a new museum is keeping their memory alive.
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Fresh voices against Russia’s old regime
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Cindor Reeves leaves Canada
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Update on Iranian political prisoner
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REVIEW: The Saddam Tapes: The Inner Workings of a Tyrant’s Regime 1978-2001
Edited by Kevin M. Woods, David D. Palkki, and Mark E. Stout
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Torture and Oxford
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Why Hitchens deserves to be remembered with Orwell
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Syria’s shifting sands
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Germany’s brown army faction?
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