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Alex Perry

Sports

The Plot to Kill the Olympics

Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?

Alex Perry Outside Apr 2021 50min Permalink

Reprints Crime World

Once Upon a Jihad

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

Alex Perry Newsweek Jan 2015 55min Permalink

Business Crime World

Mastermind

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

Alex Perry, Connie Agius Newsweek Europe Jun 2015 25min Permalink

World

George Clooney, South Sudan and How the World's Newest Nation Imploded

How celebrity-led humanitarian aid exacerbated a crisis.

Alex Perry Newsweek Oct 2014 Permalink

Crime World

The Hunt for Boko Haram

How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.

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Excerpted from The Hunt for Boko Haram.

Alex Perry Newsweek Jul 2014 Permalink