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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (30th July, 2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier (Allen Lane) When the Ottoman empire collapsed almost a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Mosaic Science, The Observer &#38; The Atlantic (19th February, 2017) John Nhial was barely a teenager when he was grabbed by a Sudanese guerrilla army and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (24th July, 2016) Does Terrorism Work by Richard English (Oxford University Press) Two decades ago I had tea with one of Ulster’s most infamous [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (24th April, 2016) And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head) It is easy to forget that Yanis Varoufakis spent two [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The hellhole that refugees are forced to call home</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (7th February, 2016) City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World&#8217;s Largest Refugee Camp (Portobello) Guled was a slight boy, orphaned in his teens [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (10th January) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram (Bloomsbury) The text arrived one evening: &#8216;My life is in danger. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (24th August, 2015) Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East (Profile) Khaled Fahmy trudged down to Tahrir Square in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (12th April, 2015) The first time I met David Cameron, then a rising star of the Conservatives, I was left with two abiding impressions. First, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (1st March, 2015) The Looting Machine: Warlords, tycoons, smugglers and the systematic theft of Africa&#8217;s wealth by Tom Burgis (William Collins) Augustin Katumba Mwanke [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (4th January, 2014) A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg (Jonathan Cape) Asad Abdullahi was eight years old when he awoke one day [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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