BIG SH()TS CYPRUS Behind the Tired Curtain Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus—A Syrian b oy lOOks out as his bus arnves at a refugee camp on February 4. He was one 0f93 migrants whO sailed tO the island's northwest coast, and as many as 700 more may be on their way, authorities in Cyprus believe. Though it's located about 100 miles frOl れ the Syrian coast, Cyprus—unlike its neighbors Greece and Turkey—has not been a common landing point for Syrians fleeing the civil war. Socrates Hasikos, the island's interior mims- ter, said the island can handle the migrants SO long as there isn't a massive influx. PETROS KARADJIAS

BIG SH()TS IRAQ Beasts of No Nation Mosul, Iraq—Before the battle of Mosul began, the Z00 in this city north of Baghdad was home tO lions, bears and monkeys, among Other animals. Soon, however, it became a redoubt for the lslamic State militant group (ISIS). At first, locals tried to feed the animals, but as the fighting inten- sified, that became t00 dangerous—and they struggled to find food for themselves. On February 2 , not long after lraqi forces tOOk control ofthe city's eastern half, a volunteer group arrived to feed the animals. Only a lion and a bear remained. The rest had either escaped or starved tO death in their cages. 第ツノ MUHAMMAD HAMED を、 をえツ

INTERVIEW Wave Rider Yves Béhar surfs the swells of California cool, technology—and social good SEAT OF POWER: The product desi ner Yves B&har photographed at the San Francisco offices Of his company, Fuseproject, in January. BY SPENCER BAILEY 当 @Spencer Bailey THE STATE OF California—its ocean swells, its open spaces, its tech-minded culture—has shaped Yves Béhar. The Swiss-born designer first traveled there with his parents in his early teens, at the beginning of the 1980S. The family took a road trip along the coast, making stops at Hearst Castle, Big Sur and Monterey. A few years later, in his early 20S , Béhar returned tO study at the Art Center CoIlege 0f Design in Pasadena, from which he graduated with a master's degree in 1991. He has remained in the G01den State ever Slnce, running hiS company, Fusepr0Ject, prl- marily out OfSan Francisco for the past 18 years. What struck me is, compared tO Europe, the amount 0f space, b0th physical and mental, on the West Coast," Béhar says, sitting in the lobby ofthe RoyaI PaIm hotel during the Design Miami fairlast fall. Though he turns50 this May, his rum- pled hair and sunny disposition make him seem 10 years younger. What was truly mind-blowing was hOW open people were tO a SWiSS designer with a thick French accent showing up at their doorsteps. I was shy and introverted, and yet people WhO were leaders in SClence or technol- ogy opened their doors and listened tO some Of the ideas I had. I began to think that design could be at the forefront Of change, not just a sort Of skin. lt could be profound, about big ideas ・ " This line of thinking has led Béhar and Fuse - project tO create some Of the most groundbreak- ing designs t0 come out 0fSiliconValleyin the past two dec ades—including the One Laptop Per Child XO ( 2005 ) , a low-cost laptop made for easy deliv- ery t0 children in developing countries, and the Jawbone Jambox wireless speakers ( 2011 ). Béhar has also gained a strong footing in the furniture industry, with a long-running serie s 0f collabora- tions with Herman Miller. MOSt recently, he has worke d with the watchmaker Movado on a line of Swiss-made watches and with Kodak on a revival Of its super 8 home-movle camera. Just a few weeks ago, Fusepr0Ject unveiled its latest mno- vafion, in an exhibition at the Design Museum London: a prototype for "powered" act1Vlty wear that supports movement in elderly people. More than ever, Béhar says, he's focusing on the connection between health and technol- ogy, creating designs that are life-affrming or life-supporting, not Just something that is super- fluous or decorative. ” Architect David Adjaye, a close friend wh0 has shared 0ffce space New York with Fuseproject for years, describes Béhar's approach in an email: Beyond his deft technical ability, Yves seeks out challenging prOJe cts with the p otential tO empower commu- nities and democratize design. lt's rare tO find a designer whose creative brilliance is matched by his drive for positive social change. Growing up in Lausanne, on the edge 0f Lake Geneva western Switzerland, Béhar was edu- cated in what he calls a "somewhat conventional schooling system. ln class, his mind 0ften drifted. By his mid-teens, he knew he was not going t0 応 1- 10W a traditional path like finance or engineering. NEWSWEEK 57 02 / 17 / 2017

CHEWING THE FAT: Russian President VIadimir Putin, right, shares a meal with lranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, and Azerbaijan's President llham AIiyev in Baku, Azerbaijan. 十 4 On the mornlng ofJanuary 11 , Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar climbed up the compamonway Of an aircraft carrier floating 0 代 the Mediterranean port of Tobruk. As a marine band played and an honor guard presented arms, an admiral in a white full-dress uniform greeted Haftar, WhO was a semor commander in the し S. -backed rebel forces that ousted the dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, in 2011. After the welcoming ceremony, the 73-year- Old Haftar, an American citizen whO for many years lived in the United States, was escorted below decks for a secure video conference With the Middle East's most energetic foreign power broker. The offlcial topic was battling terror. But both sides knew the unoffcial agenda was something else: hOW tO bOOSt Haftar's power as he tries to defeat a weak, U.N. -backed government in TriPOli. Haftar has close ties in Washington, but his hosts in January were not American. Rather, he was aboard the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only aircraft carrier, and hiS interlocutor was Russian Defense Minister Sergei Sh0igu. Like a growing number 0f leaders in the MiddIe East, Haftar has a new set Of friends in Moscow. After three decades on the sidelines, Russia IS once agalll a major player in the regl()n. ln the last six months alone, the country has altered the course Of the Syrian civil war and taken control Ofthe peace process, forged a close relationship with Turkey 's strongman Pre s- ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan and has been courting traditional し S. allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and even lsrael. And over the past tWO years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has received the leaders of Middle Eastern states 25 times—five more than former し S. president Barack Obama, according t0 a N ビル引怩 analysis ofpresidential meetings. For decades, Washington has tried tO plant democracles in much Of the world, including the Middle East. But that plan appears to have withered under Obama and current し S. President Donald Trump. With the imperfect exception 0f Tunisia, the Arab Spring did not bring democracy t0 the Middle East. lt instead allowed instability and extremism tO flourish in countrie s including Egypt, Libya and Syria. "OBAMA'S ENTIRE POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAS FAILED. ” NEWSWEEK 26 02 / 17 / 2017

AL MOTTUR admits tO not only counting his chickens before they had hatched but also putting out all the fixings for a Sunday pic- nic fried chicken feast. The veteran Democratic lobbyist went intO EIection Day assuming Hillary CIinton would be America's 45th president, and as a member Of Clinton S national finance com- mittee wh0 helped raise more than $ 1 million for her campalgn, that would have been a victory not Just for his party but also for his bottom line. 当 was thinking, This is going to be great for my firm," recalls MOttur, a senior partner at D. C. lobbying power- house Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck, which represents such companies as Anheuser-Busch, FedEx and Comcast. NEWSWEEK 38 02 / 17 / 2017 As it did for SO many others, the election results stunne d M0ttur; Donald Trump s victory left him deeply disappointed, personally. Profession- ally, however, he quickly surmised that his com- pany would be just fine. Several well-connected Republican lobbysts on the team were involved with the Trump c ampaign, his White House tran- sition team or bOth, Mottur notes, SO we ve J11St been switching our marketing e mphasis. That's the same abrupt adjustment dozens of lobbying companies, trade associations and

the Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation during the key lran negotiations. "The lranians trusted us. We were their guarantee ofsecurity. At the same time, Russia was alSO inserting itself, steadily and qmetly, int0 the lsraeli-palestinian peace process. Moscow's key allywas Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who earned a doctorate at the Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow in the 1970S. lsraeli researchers, citing documents that KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled out 0fRussia in 1991 , have claimed that Abbas was recruited by the SOViet security service under the code name "Krotov"—although palestinian offcials dismissed the allegation as an lsraeli smear. Agent or not, Abbas "likes the Russians, he wants to please them," says Ziad Abu zayyad, a former Palestinian mmister and negotiator. When Putin visited Bethlehem during a 2012 trip t0 the West Bank, Abbas gave him a plot 0f land—now a Russian cultural center; that year, he named streets in Bethlehem and JerichO after Putin and his predecessor, Dmitry Medvedev. Running parallel with these grand, public gestures of friendship is a quieter and constant diplomatic campalgn in the reglOn ・ Spearheading Moscow's outreach is a bespecta- cled, Arabic-speaking, 64-year-oId career dip- lomat named Mikhail Bogdanov, who has been putin's special envoy to the Middle East since 2012. A former ambassador to Syria, Egypt and PEACEMAKERS: lsrael, Bogdanov has played a key role in winning Putin listens to friends and influencing people, from Egypt's Recep Tayyip president and military strongman, Abdel Fattah Erdogan in lstanbulin el-Sisi, to Libya's Haftar. October. The America's steady disengagement from the Russian and Turkish presidents Middle East under Obama helped Bogdanov ・ are co-sponsormg The White House had good reason to step talks in a bid to end the Syrian war. back from the region: The president wanted tO wind down unpopular American military 0 0

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