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Justin Marozzi

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Middle East / Iran’s tradition of martyrdom is key to understanding this conflict

One word stood out in the florid and overwrought announcement of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader by a tearful state-television newsreader on 1...

09.03.2026 8

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Justin Marozzi

Middle East / Iran’s tradition of martyrdom is key to understanding this conflict

One word stood out in the florid and overwrought announcement of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader by a tearful state-television newsreader on 1...

09.03.2026 7

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Justin Marozzi

Object lesson / Have we reached peak ‘curation’?

02.02.2026 6

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Justin Marozzi

What Trump’s coup in Venezuela means for Iran

09.01.2026 10

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Justin Marozzi

What Trump’s coup in Venezuela means for Iran

08.01.2026 10

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Justin Marozzi

Books / What hope is there for Syria today?

18.11.2025 10

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Justin Marozzi

Books / What hope is there for Syria today?

18.11.2025 3

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Justin Marozzi

What Andrew’s Norfolk exile will look like

13.11.2025 10

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Justin Marozzi

Historian’s notebook / The human stories of slavery

02.09.2025 10

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Justin Marozzi

Historian’s notebook / The human stories of slavery

29.08.2025 10

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Justin Marozzi

The human stories of slavery

28.08.2025 10

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Justin Marozzi

Toppling Iran’s Supreme Leader could be a mistake

19.06.2025 8

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Justin Marozzi

Why possum beats cashmere

06.03.2025 20

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Justin Marozzi

Ukrainians are keeping calm and carrying on in defiance of Trump

26.02.2025 10

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Justin Marozzi

Books / For God or Allah

I thought we might be on to a winner with this book after the opening sentence. ‘From an early age,’ Simon Mayall writes, ‘I loved stories and...

26.12.2024 2

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Justin Marozzi