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“Americans are not aware of how closely we follow what you guys are doing,” says Matthias Kolb, a reporter with the German daily Sddeutsche Zeitung. “We are so obsessed with America, it’s like the North Star, sort of. There is so much connection and attachment.”

He and journalists from Italy, Lebanon and Turkey share some of their experiences below. Interviews have been edited and condensed. Readers may find some language objectionable. presidential races in 1992. He now writes for both the paper and its Espresso magazine.

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The Republican convention this year was different [than in the past]. The atmosphere in the convention center was more tense, there was more arrabiata, a sense of hate against the enemy. People tried to convince me that Donald Trump is the best candidate. Of course they did not convince me.

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So it’s not easy. It’s not easy to understand the guy for Italians. We had [Prime Minister] Silvio Berlusconi for many years and maybe there are some similarities. But the situation, I think, is totally different, and much, much, much more dangerous for the world than Signor Berlusconi.

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I’ve been having even vocabulary problems, even to translate words like “groping” we don’t know what to put in the headline. So even on a linguistic level, it’s a challenge explaining this to an Arab audience.

We avoided direct quotes from the Billy Bush video and the two women’s videos. We did not translate “p” literally. We just said explicit words were used. We didn’t know what to use with “groping” and “vagina.” Arab culture is a different culture; it’s more conservative.

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Then waking up every day with a new bombshell explaining the private server, hacking, it’s been increasingly negative. The John Kerry swift boat accusations now, you laugh hilariously that that was a major story then. Now we’re seeing this on multiple levels.

At the RNC, we were seated, three Arab journalists it was pretty awkward, because we were seated among the supporters, not with the journalists. You felt you had to start clapping. Someone asked me if I was Indian and I actually said yes. I didn’t want to get into an argument or hear someone say, “Go back to the Middle East.”

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The rise of Trump in itself has been shocking to the Middle East. Many people thought this can’t be true or it’s an actual conspiracy. wants to take the oil and carpet bomb the Middle East, and Donald Trump just expresses this publicly.

Matthias Kolb, Sddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

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