George Fetherling

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Out of Africa

In 2008, a British journalist named Tom Burgis, who helped cover Africa for the Financial Times, witnessed the mass murder of men, women and children

Fu Manchu to you too

Here’s a story that’s been passed along in my family — which means that it’s most likely not true. The story is that my grandfather

An Iran-born Armenian-American in Turkey

Meline Toumani is a young Iranian-born Armenian who grew up in New Jersey and began her writing career as an editorial assistant at the New

A different look at Islam

As Diplomat is published only four times a year, I have a devil of a time rooting out books that haven’t already been reviewed everywhere

Wars both hot and cold

As soon as the Second World War was over, the French began fighting a decade-long hit-and-run guerrilla conflict against left-wing nationalists in Vietnam, Cambodia and

The logo of a civilisation

As I write this, Greece remains the poor boy of the European Union and democracy teeters drunkenly in various places around the world. These facts

Slaying the Dragon Lady

The “Dragon Lady” was the name of a sexy Asian “villainess” in Terry and the Pirates, a popular newspaper comic strip of the 1930s, 1940s

Nitty-gritty cities

Odd how certain dead film stars are often the subject of popular cults. Among those with the most enduring posthumous lives is the Hollywood femme

Some diplomatic intrigues

An error in Steven Spielberg’s film, Lincoln stirred up a little controversy last year. The movie, as most everyone now knows, depicts Abraham Lincoln’s manoeuvring