Pepe Escobar

Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist whose main column is called The Roving Eye, for Hong Kong-based Asia Times. He is also a frequent commentator on Russia's RT and Iran's Press TV. He writes regularly for Russia's Sputnik News, and has written many opinion pieces for Al Jazeera.^[1]

Escobar has focused on Central Asia, Russia the Middle East, and Iran since the late 1990s.^[2]

Escobar has reported extensively from Afghanistan. In August 2000, Escobar and two other journalists were arrested by the Taliban, and accused of photographing a soccer match.^[3]

Bibliography

Escobar, P. (2007), Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War, Nimble Books.
Escobar, P. (2007), Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge, Nimble Books.
Escobar, P. (2009), Obama Does Globalistan, Nimble Books.
Escobar, P. (2014), Empire of Chaos, Nimble Books.
Escobar, P. (2015), 2030, Nimble Books.
Escobar, P. (2016), 2030, suivi de Dialogues inactuels (Jorge Luis Borges), Éditions du Cercle.

References

↑ Bio on Al Jazeera
↑ Sharma, Dinesh and Gielen, Uwe, "About the Contributors", The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century, Routledge 2013
↑ Dartnell, Michael York, Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict, University of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 56

[1] Bio on Al Jazeera

[2] Sharma, Dinesh and Gielen, Uwe, "About the Contributors", The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century, Routledge 2013

[3] Dartnell, Michael York, Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict, University of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 56

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