Hinterlands: The New Cold War Brewing at the Peripheries of the West Chuck Palahniuk MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy

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their growth as people is both genuine and rewarding to watch

Hinterlands: The New Cold War Brewing at the Peripheries of the West Chuck Palahniuk MAHMOUD is a Syrian boyA Pulitzer grantees timely work of reportage from the borderlands of Europe, Russia, and Turkey, where brewing conflicts mark a significant fault line in shifting geopolitics. Hannah Lucinda Smith, a Pulitzer grantee and acclaimed foreign correspondent, has devoted well over a decade to intrepid, on the ground reporting where few dare travel: the small, often disputed territories at the edges of Europe and Russia. There, Smith finds, the influence of