Jonathan Steele

Jonathan Steele is a former Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian. His most recent book is Ghosts of Afghanistan. (March 2024)

Journalistic Self-Censorship?

May 9, 2024 issue

The Party Line

A new book about Western journalists’ experience in Moscow during World War II sheds light on the problems of media manipulation and self-censorship in coverage of Russia today.

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War

by Alan Philps

March 21, 2024 issue

Letter

Luke Harding

Journalistic Self-Censorship?

May 9, 2024 issue

Turkey and the Kurds

The last eighteen months have taught the Kurdish freedom movement some hard lessons.

The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities

by Cuma Çiçek

April 20, 2017 issue

The Syrian Kurds Are Winning!

For the Kurds, the dream of having a state of their own has never faded

Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War

by Michael M. Gunter

December 3, 2015 issue

‘The Stasi on Our Minds’: An Exchange

July 19, 2007 issue

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