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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWant to share this heartbreaking, critically important piece on the destruction of the Middle East
Here are the first 2 introductory paragraphs, from which you can decide if this incredible long long story is worth you time.
And worth you passing on.
This is a story unlike any we have previously published. It is much longer than the typical New York Times Magazine feature story; in print, it occupies an entire issue. The product of some 18 months of reporting, it tells the story of the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences war and uncertainty throughout the world are familiar to us all. Scott Andersons story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Accompanying Andersons text are 10 portfolios by the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, drawn from his extensive travels across the region over the last 14 years, as well as a landmark virtual-reality experience that embeds the viewer with the Iraqi fighting forces during the battle to retake Falluja.
It is unprecedented for us to focus so much energy and attention on a single story, and to ask our readers to do the same. We would not do so were we not convinced that what follows is one of the most clear-eyed, powerful and human explanations of what has gone wrong in this region that you will ever read.
JAKE SILVERSTEIN, EDITOR IN CHIEF
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1
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Want to share this heartbreaking, critically important piece on the destruction of the Middle East (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Nov 2016
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malaise
(269,157 posts)1. K & R
Things will get worse
elleng
(131,073 posts)2. They always do.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)3. Thanks for this, dixiegrrrrl.
Just put a log on the fire (it's cold here) and settling in to read.