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Alex Kliment
Creative Director, Senior Editor/Producer
Alex wears a few different caps and tips them all regularly. He writes for the GZERO Daily, works as a field correspondent for GZERO's nationally syndicated TV show GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER, and writes/directs/voices GZERO's award-winning puppet satire show PUPPET REGIME. Prior to joining GZERO, Alex worked as an analyst covering Russia and broader Emerging Markets for Eurasia Group. He has also written for the Financial Times from Washington, DC, and Sao Paulo Brazil. In his spare time, he makes short films and composes scores for long ones. He studied history and Slavic literature at Columbia and has a Master's from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He's a native New Yorker, a long-suffering Mets fan, and owns too many bicycles.
May 21, 2019
This week's recs on good stuff outside of the news cycle.
Watch:Ramy, Egyptian-American comedian Ramy Yousseff's eye-opening autobiographical sitcom about the comedy and conflicts of growing up as a Muslim millennial in the shadow of New York City. The log line for the show should really be "Sex, Drugs, and Allah."
Hear: Three-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo's spectacular reinterpretation of Cuban salsa legend Celia Cruz's repertoire. It's a musical adventure of world historical scope: Kidjo is from Benin, whose territory is home to many of the musical and religious traditions that, via the slave trade, formed the basis of Afro-Cuban music.
Drink: A cup of coffee and read this piece on how soaring production from traditional coffee superpowers like Colombia and Brazil has outstripped demand, driving farmers out of business in Central American countries where violence has already led hundreds of thousands of to risk northward journeys in search of refuge and opportunity.
