#AtlanticCurrents H Sorge in conversation w/ Hajar El Alaoui on COVID-19 seen from the North & South

April 15, 2021

Delve into Hajar Alaoui’s chapter of our annual flagship publication, the #AtlanticCurrents addressing the pandemic both from the North and the South, through our Columnist Helmut Sorge's questions. The 7th edition of the report entitled “The COVID-19 Crisis as seen from the South Atlantic” echoes last year’s special online edition of the Atlantic Dialogues, the AD Talks. The Atlantic Currents: https://www.policycenter.ma/publicati...​ The AD Talks: ad.policycenter.ma Did you like this interview format? More to come very soon, led by Helmut Sorge!

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Helmut Sorge
Columnist
Helmut Sorge is a columnist at the Policy Center for the New South, where he publishes opinion pieces in the format of international press reviews of current events related to the Middle East and European affairs, and conducts interviews with high level policy makers and PCNS researchers. He is also a lecturer on journalism and the media. For over 40 years, Helmut Sorge served as a writer, former Foreign correspondent, Foreign editor, and Middle East expert for Germany's leading newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" to Washington, London, Paris and Los Angeles. He reported from Vietnam, the Middle East, wrote about safaris, nuclear accidents, visited prisoners on death row in the United States. The German weekly “Gala” summarized in 2011, when his latest book, a collection of biographies ...

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