Wednesday, 22 March 2006

Uzbekistan: A Lifeboat for the Media

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This piece originally appeared in Transitions Online on 22 March 2006. About a year after the Andijan masacre, Uzbekistan had become a medi...
Thursday, 24 November 2005

Blind to the "Butcher of Andijan"

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This article originally appeared in the European Voice on 24 November 2005. ======= Uzbekistan Interior Minister Zakirjon Almatov is cu...
Sunday, 17 July 2005

Pakistan: Still Schooling Extremists

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This is a piece I wrote with my Crisis Group colleague, Samina Ahmed, following the London 7/7 bombings, and which we published in The Washi...
Tuesday, 14 June 2005

In Congo, 1,000 Die per Day: Why Isn't It a Media Story?

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This was published in the Christian Science Monitor on 14 June 2005. ======= It's a maxim that what people aren't talking about...
Tuesday, 21 December 2004

The Inevitability of Change in Uzbekistan

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My colleague, David Lewis, and I wrote this piece for the Financial Times on 21 December 2004. Sadly, the situation hasn't improved in ...
Wednesday, 1 December 2004

The Ceausescu Career Path?

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Back in 2004, my Crisis Group colleague, David Lewis, and I looked at what might happen when the self-assumed immortal "Turkmenbashi...
Friday, 25 June 2004

Failing Somalia at Our Peril

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My then colleague, John Prendergast, and I wrote this piece for The Baltimore Sun on 25 June 2004. ======= It is a failed state in whic...
Tuesday, 8 June 2004

Darfur Starvation Will Be Televised... Eventually

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This article was published in the Christian Science Monitor on 8 June 2004. ======= When people are starving en masse, television is th...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004

The West Is Far Too Kind to Uzbekistan's Tyrant

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This article originally appeared in the International Herald Tribune on 16 March 2004. ======= "I didn't want to leave my home...
Tuesday, 20 January 2004

Don't Breathe a Sigh of Relief for Sudan Just Yet

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Worried the international community was turning its back on a humanitarian crisis and possibly genocide in Darfur, my then-colleague at Cris...
Friday, 23 May 2003

Internet Censors in China Loosening Their Grip

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This article originally appeared in Online Journalism Review on 23 May 2003. ======= A researcher tracking Internet censorship trends i...
Wednesday, 5 February 2003

Belarus: Crossed Signals

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I wrote this from Minsk for TIME magazine on 5 February 2003. ======= Minsk just can't seem to make up its mind. One minute, Belaru...
Tuesday, 5 November 2002

Tunisia Stifles Web Publications

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This article ran in Online Journalism Review on 5 November 2002. ======= Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine ben Ali brooks no online op...
Sunday, 22 September 2002

Central Asians Victims of War on Terror

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This is a piece I wrote from Bishkek with BBC stringer Sultan Jumagulov. It ran on IWPR's website on 22 September 2002. ======= The ...
Thursday, 22 August 2002

Afghans Thirst for Web Access

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I wrote this article for Online Journalism Review , which ran it on 22 August 2002. It looks at how some Afghans became experts at online pu...