The Hidden Globe

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land and reveals how it became a haven for the rich and powerful.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. The author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and a 2024 New America National Fellow, she has worked as an editor at The Nation, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and a reporter for Reuters. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.