An immigrant’s reflections on a dying city that is bound to be reborn.
Author: Andrej Mrevlje
Andrej Mrevlje is Slovenian-born journalist who has covered global developments for the past quarter century for print and broadcast media. Now based in New York, he has previously reported from China, Pakistan, North Korea, Mongolia, Italy and the Balkans, among others. Founder and Editor of Yonder, he has covered a wide range of topics, from China’s repression of Tibet and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism to Barack Obama’s landmark first election and the death of Pope John Paul II. Educated in Ljubljana, Beijing and Paris, he speaks six languages and is interested, among the other topics, in the rise and fall of competing global powers.
The Islamic Republic foreign minister made a series of trips recently to shore up support among his country’s few remaining allies. He returned empty handed.