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Houman Barekat

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Guardian UK
Top 1K sites
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Jul 23, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Houman Barekat

    The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order (opens the original)

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    A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach Like many Britons born in the 1980s, the journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones came of age with Tony Blair’s platitudes ringing in his ears. Politics at the turn of the millennium was a story of temporary dispensations mistaken for eternal truths: the definitive triumph of free market ideology; US military supremacy; a rules-based global order. As Jones recounts in his new book, these certainties would c

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Houman Barekat

    No Land to Stand On by Mahmoud Khalil review – a searing account of political imprisonment (opens the original)

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    The Palestinian Columbia student snatched by ICE writes about his Kafkaesque ordeal with a quiet fury Mahmoud Khalil was completing a master’s degree at Columbia University when, in March 2025, plain-clothed officers from the Department of Homeland Security snatched him from his home in New York and took him to an immigration detention centre; he was then transferred to another facility in Louisiana, more than 1,000 miles away. As a green card holder, Khalil has permanent US residency, but se

  3. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Houman Barekat

    Air by Christian Kracht review – a metaphysical jigsaw puzzle (opens the original)

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    A portal opens from our modern world of data centres and interior design into a medieval fantasy realm, in this playfully surreal tale from the author of Eurotrash A reclusive interior designer named Paul travels from his home in Orkney to the Norwegian coastal city of Stavanger for a most unusual commission. A data­centre housing a vast internet server is located by a fjord on the outskirts of the city, and a prestigious arts magazine is paying him a large sum of money to give it a makeover.

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