It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge.
On October 6 1980 I watched Anwar Sadat at the peak of his powers, reviewing his troops at a military ‘Victory Parade’ in Cairo. One year later, I was reporting from Cairo as he was shot dead at the same location, along with ten others.
Alan Kogosowski has brought the magic of Frederic Chopin back from beyond the grave. The Australian pianist completed a unique version of the Austrian composer’s long-delayed and ultimately unfinished Third Piano Concerto in A major, Opus 46. He has now done its final revision. Correspondent.world accompanied Kogosowshi to Paris where he drew new inspiration by visiting […]
The long-time Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat blamed Israeli leaders for his entrapment inside his West Bank headquarters, according to a recently-discovered transcript of Arafat’s final television interview.
Lebanon is, literally, reeling from its latest blast. The actual cause was a small fire that then ignited a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate stored in the country’s main port for more than six years. It had been confiscated from a ship that had docked on its way to take supplies of the volatile material. […]
By Paul Cainer Struck down by Covid-19, 61-year-old Laurie Wiseman saw himself at his own funeral. Except he was still alive – and hallucinating.
By Paul Martin in Camp Roj, Syria. Fearful for her future as Kurdish forces hold her in the barbed-wire surrounded compound, like so many others all she really wants is to come home. ______________________________________________________ You don’t have access to this premium article. To view please purchase a premium subscription by clicking on a subscription link below. […]
Exclusive. By Paul Martin in Camp Roj, Syria. Sitting on a plastic chair in a cramped prison camp, her face covered with a black veil apart from a slot for her blue-grey eyes, a young British woman who fled home to join ISIS refuses to talk, then finally breaks her silence. Fearful for her future, […]
By Paul Martin. On Friday March 8 2019 I was in Kurdistan, having just crossed the Tigris River from Syria. We had just been inside the Roj Camp yesterday at lunch-time the previous day. There, Kurdish military forces were (and still are) holding hundreds of women who had been married to jihadi ISIS fighters or […]
By Paul Martin at London Luton Airport. On the first day anyone from the European Union (apart from Portugal and Sweden) could travel to England without quarantine [June 10 2020], the Wizzair plane from Milan to this small but usually very busy airport is half empty. This itself tells a story — that, even without […]