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Roger of Arabia

Discerning Condé Nast’s latest moves, entanglements, and disentanglements in the Middle East and China.

Roger Lynch
After years of partnership, C.E.O. Roger Lynch may be attempting to fully integrate his foreign properties into the mothership, the final piece of the successful merger of Condé Nast with its sister company, Condé Nast International. Photo: Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images
Lauren Sherman
July 11, 2024

One of the more underexplored recent Condé Nast subplots—beyond the Pam Drucker Mann departure, the internal labor turmoil, the Vogue World semi-success story, and next week’s board meeting—pertains to the publisher’s business endeavors abroad. Members of Condé Nast’s legal team recently spent considerable time in China working through a GQ licensing challenge that threatened to prevent its July issue, with its advertising commitments, from distribution. Meanwhile, its parent company, Advance, is engaged in a legal dispute with Nervora, the Middle Eastern publisher of Vogue Arabia and Wired Middle East.