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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.

World

The extremists who hit Mumbai are poised to strike again

Lashkar-e-Taiba now has global ambitions

A tyrant on trial

It can be lonely writing about and covering wars and humans rights atrocities in Africa. Nobody really cares - at least not as...