（続）「ペンの力」

ニューヨークタイムズの日曜版にはNew York Times Magazineという大型の冊子がついてきます。先週の日曜版はこの冊子すべてを使って中東のルポータージュを紹介したことが話題になっています。中東に暮らす6人の目からイラク戦争やアラブの春を捉え直し現状のあり方を浮かび上がらせている労作です。

FRACTURED LANDS: HOW THE ARAB WORLD CAME APART
BY SCOTT ANDERSON
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAOLO PELLEGRIN

This is a story unlike any we have previously published. It is much longer than the typical New York Times Magazine feature story; in print, it occupies an entire issue. The product of some 18 months of reporting, it tells the story of the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences — war and uncertainty throughout the world — are familiar to us all. Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Accompanying Anderson’s text are 10 portfolios by the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, drawn from his extensive travels across the region over the last 14 years, as well as a landmark virtual-reality experience that embeds the viewer with the Iraqi fighting forces during the battle to retake Falluja.

It is unprecedented for us to focus so much energy and attention on a single story, and to ask our readers to do the same. We would not do so were we not convinced that what follows is one of the most clear-eyed, powerful and human explanations of what has gone wrong in this region that you will ever read.

– JAKE SILVERSTEIN, EDITOR IN CHIEF

ちょくちょくこのブログでは指摘している点ですが、池上彰的な説明だとスンナ派とシーア派といった単純な図式をこのルポータージュでは拒否しています。NewsHourでの該当部分です。



HARI SREENIVASAN: One of the things that I noticed in this article is that you don’t just say this is a Shia-Sunni problem, which is very easy kind of Western way to look at the Middle East and say, well, oh, clearly, these Shia must love those Shia, they’re in cahoots, and they are going to overthrow this.
And you don’t — get into that.
SCOTT ANDERSON: No, and it’s so much more complicated, and enjoined to the idea of how you subdivide it.
In Iraq, there is lots of very large tribes that have a Sunni component and a Shia component. So, what happens? If you tried to do a Sunni-Shia division, what happens to that tribe?
You know, there are issues with clans going back…
HARI SREENIVASAN: A couple of thousand years.
SCOTT ANDERSON: A couple of thousand years.
You know, and so, when people start looking at like a kind of a quick solution to any of this, I think it’s just in for a really long, very rocky road throughout the region.

日本でもシリアを取材しているジャーナリストはいるようですがメインメディアがこのような発表をすることは難しいんでしょう。日本の人口が少なくなると日本語で発表している出版、テレビを含めたメディア産業はますます経営的に苦しくなるので、この傾向は続きそうです。

ジャーナリストが仕事として成り立たない日本
2016年05月31日（火）11時12分
＜トラック運転手をして取材資金を貯めるという桜木武史さん（37）が、第３回山本美香記念国際ジャーナリスト賞を受賞。受賞作の『シリア 戦場からの声』は緊迫感ある優れた作品だが、彼の状況は、日本でジャーナリストとして生きることの難しさを象徴している＞

それにしても気合の入った特集でした。写真を見るだけでもいいですし、途中挫折してもいい（Yutaも読み通すのに数日かかりました（汗））ので、是非とも目を通してもらいたいです。