Basharat Peer

The New York Times

Bio

Basharat Peer is a staff editor at The New York Times.

Previously, he was an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs and a fellow at Open Society Institute in New York.

Featured Work

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APR 5, 2017 Podcast

A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen

Journalist Basharat Peer recounts the rise of two strongmen: Erdogan in Turkey and Modi in India. What they have in common "is a lack of ...