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One World, Two Civilizations

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Author: Ryszard Kapuściński source: New Perspectives Quarterly, Spring 1986 archive source: info-poland.buffalo.edu

One World, Two Civilizations

As a foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, Ryszard Kapuscinski covered civil wars and revolutions in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East for twenty years. He also wrote for the magazine KULTURA until it was closed down by the Polish authorities. At present, be lives in Warsaw.

Kapuscinski’s most recent books include THE EMPEROR an account of the fall of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in 1974 and SHAH OF SHAHS, an account of the Iranian revolution and the collapse of Shah Reza Pahlavi’s regime.

One World, Two Civilizations (2002)

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Author: Ryszard Kapuściński source: New Perspectives Quarterly, Winter 2002 archive source: info-poland.buffalo.edu

One World, Two Civilizations

Ryszard Kapuscinski, a member of NPQ’s advisory board and author of such works of literary journalism as Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, The Soccer War and Imperium, is the war correspondent extraodinaire. Long before CNN cast its occasional spotlight on Rwanda or Somalia, Kapuscinski had been roaming the backwaters of the planet for decades as a reporter for the Polish Press Agency, documenting the awakening, and later the historical paralysis, of what we used to call “the Third World.”