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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (The Author)
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is an independent journalist. She was a senior editor at The Nation and an editor at Al Jazeera America. Her articles have been published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Intercept, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her previous book, The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (), examined the complexities of global citizenship and the sale of passports to the wealthy elite. Abrahamian holds multiple passports; she is a citizen of Switzerland, Iran, Canada, and the United States. Abrahamian grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, and currently lives in New York City.
Abrahamian’s beat is the global elite, liminal or unusual economies, and forms of state sovereignty. These topics are all well-represented in The Hidden Globe. Some of the research found in the book was based on her previous reporting, such as the discussion of Asgardia, “the world’s first space-based nation” (). Other research was conducted specifically for the book, like her visit to Svalbard. Finally, Abrahamian also draws on her own experiences growing up in Geneva, which pu
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"A revelatory look at a globe-spanning collection of 'offshore jurisdictions,' 'legal black holes,' and 'free zones' .Abrahamian begins by delving into the histories of contemporary tax havensbut her scope is far broaderan impressive achievement." &#;Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Sharply observed[Abrahamian's] well-researched, engrossing work manages the minutiae of several fields, including telecommunications, maritime law, and fine art, to stitch together a multilayered tale of how privilege works to protect itself. Important documentation of how mechanisms favored by the 1 percent increase global inequalities." &#;Kirkus Reviews
"The Hidden Globe eloquently verifies a long-inarticulate suspicion: that our world has been invisibly remade. Traveling to different parts of the world, Abrahamian describes insidiously interconnected global regimes of inequality and injustice. In the process, she boldly renews our sense of reality and brilliantly illuminates our political impasse." &#;Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger
"Although we imagine the world as divided neat
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, National Fellow, is an independent journalist who writes about the cracks in the nation-state system. A former editor at the Nation and Al Jazeera America, Abrahamian’s reporting and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Intercept, and many other publications.
Abrahamian’s first book, The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports, ) investigated the multi-billion dollar market for passports, interrogating what the sale of citizenship means for nomadic billionaires, the stateless poor, and everybody else. She is working on a book for Riverhead that examines the jurisdictions above, between, and beneath nations. Combining reporting, criticism, metaphysics and legal theory, it leads readers through the special economic zones that prop up world trade, the polar archipelagos that challenge the definition of national sovereignty, the ships criss-crossing the world flying flags of convenience, and the micro-states rewriting the laws of outer space.
A Livingston Award finalist in , Abrahamian was a recipient of the Silv
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian author biography, plus links to books by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. The author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and a New America National Fellow, she has worked as an editor at The Nation, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and a reporter for Reuters. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.
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