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I sat down with NATO Secretary-General and former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of the high-stakes June 24-25 summit. We spoke at length about getting Europe to spend trillions more on defense—and keep Donald Trump on side.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Maximos Mansion in Athens on March 12. (Courtesy Yiorgos Kaplanidis for TIME)
In March, I had the chance to sit down with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens for TIME’s latest print edition. We chatted the historic same-sex marriage legislation, Greece’s economic rebound, his love of TikTok and Guns N’ Roses, and more.
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A few weeks back, I sat down with the European Parliament President in Brussels. We discussed reforming and modernizing the E.U.’s only democratically elected institution in the wake of Qatargate, the biggest corruption scandal in decades.
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Solar panels installed at the Fouad Chehab stadium. (Myriam Boulos—Magnum Photos for TIME)
About 2,300 ft. above Beirut in the Matn District mountains, Roger Mazloum and his brother Elias greet me on an unusually balmy winter day as they chop wood to help keep their early 20th century home warm before the cold returns. I’m no match for these burlier Lebanese men, who grew up in Broummana, a town of 15,000 people about a dozen miles east of the Lebanese capital, but I politely take my turn, meekly swinging an ax at the tree stump before us. After a lackluster start, and plenty of patience from the pair, something akin to firewood begins to splinter off.
Roger takes me through the family home’s front door—past a living room with traditional Lebanese floor tiles and artwork dedicated to the late Umm Kulthum, the Egyptian titan of Arabic music—and up the stairs to the roof. The pine-covered mountains and a foggy glimpse of the Mediterranean Sea are a pleasant distraction, but the real purpose of the tour is to see the 18 solar panels slightly obscuring the vista. Like tens of thousands of Lebanese people, the Mazloums have turned to solar power to generate reliable—and cost-effective—electricity in a country where the crisis-stricken state provides as little as one or two hours of power a day.
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by adam rasmi in TIME
May 9-16 issue. (Courtesy TIME)
Thrilled to share that I joined TIME magazine as World Affairs Editor earlier this month. I’ll be commissioning and editing stories from London, with a focus on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The role will involve some writing and working across both online and print.
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