Conor Maguire

Conor Maguire has been writing from the Middle East for more than three decades. He has filed from Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo, Jerusalem, Gaza, Damascus, and a long list of cities the Western press now mostly visits by satellite. He treats the region not as a perpetual crisis but as the long aftermath of empire — Ottoman, British, French, American. He calls things by their names: occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide. He has been doing this long enough to be unmoved by official denials.