Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is currently executive opinion editor at the Financial Times.https://www.ft.com/stream/caf2716e-5e84-44d4-ad80-2c8d489283a7https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-polakow-suransky-326a1a4/?originalSubdomain=uk From 2017-early 2025, he was a deputy editor of Foreign Policy, and before that editor of international opinion at The New York Times op-ed page and a former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.
In 2015 he was an Open Society Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration."Open Society Fellowship: Sasha Polakow-Suransky, 2015". Open Society Foundations. opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved 2017-10-12. His first book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, was published in 2010. His second book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, was published in 2017."Go Back to Where You Came From by Sasha Polakow-Suransky". Hatchette Book Group. hachettebookgroup.com. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
Life After graduating from Brown University, where he wrote for The College Hill Independent, Polakow-Suransky was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in modern history.
He is the younger brother of Shael Polakow-Suransky; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky, South African Jews who were anti-apartheid activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.
Works The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Pantheon, 2010. , Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, Nation Books, 2017. ,
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