Jorn De Cock
Journalist, writer and
media consultant
Jorn De Cock is a freelance journalist specialised in the Middle East. He has amassed fifteen years of experience in reporting from all over the world, including in conflict zones like Iraq, Kosovo, the Caucasus and Congo. He has written four books and has additional experience as a media consultant, lecturer and trainer in journalism. He is currently working from Damascus, Syria.
media consultant
Jorn De Cock is a freelance journalist specialised in the Middle East. He has amassed fifteen years of experience in reporting from all over the world, including in conflict zones like Iraq, Kosovo, the Caucasus and Congo. He has written four books and has additional experience as a media consultant, lecturer and trainer in journalism. He is currently working from Damascus, Syria.
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Arabian Dawn
A Journey between Glamour and Fatwa
In ‘Arabian Dawn’, published in Dutch in Belgium and the Netherlands in September 2010, Jorn De Cock explores the evolution of Arab societies beyond the clichés prevailing in the West. The journey takes him from a gay bar in Lebanon to the lingerie shops of Damascus, but also to the shores of Gaza, the segregated society of Saudi Arabia and the war-torn streets of Baghdad.
“The author describes this complicated region in a gripping yet accessible way. From the lingerie shops of Damascus, the ski slope of Dubai, the success of Facebook to a talk with Hamas: it’s all there. An excellent introduction to a Middle East where there’s more than violence and suffering.” (Metro) |
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Leuven Ongekuist, beeld van een stad in dertieneneenhalf portretten (2006)
A small university town in Belgium hosts inhabitants of at least a hundred nationalities. Yet despite this multiculturalism, many people in the city of Leuven don’t have a clue about how diverse its population is. In 'Leuven unpolished, an image of a city in thirteen-and-a-half portraits', Jorn De Cock interviews a cross-section of Leuven’s society, young and old, migrant and non-migrant, from a Chechen refugee to the salesman in the local sex shop.
De Drang van het Oosten, een treinreis door de nieuwe EU-landen (2004)
In ‘The Yearning of the East, a Journey on the Railway Tracks of the new EU Countries, Jorn De Cock explores the countries of Central and Eastern Europe on the eve of their EU accession, to discover the traces of the bloody twentieth century, forty years of communist seclusion, but also a dynamism and energy which could bode well for these countries’ future.
Nieuw Radicaal-rechts in Europa (2001, co-author)
All over Europe rightist populist parties seem to be on the rise, yet despite their common traits of harsh anti-migrant and nationalist rhetoric, 'new radical right' parties also thrive on very local issues and nation-specific historical frustrations. “The new radical right in Europe” offers an insight into these new radical parties from Western Europe via Austria and Romania to Poland.