Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me,…
Stand by for a quotation to take your breath away. It’s from a letter from my Istanbul publishers, who are chickening out…
How easily the sparks from the American-Israeli fire fall across the Middle East. Every threat, every intransigence uttered in Washington and Tehran…
For the first time, Sunni insurgents disclose their conditions for ceasefire in Iraq For the first time, one of Iraq’s principal insurgent…
This is how the 1975-90 conflict began in Lebanon. Outbreaks of sectarian hatred, appeals for restraint, promises of aid from Western and…
The lynching of Saddam Hussein – for that is what we are talking about – will turn out to be one of…
4 December 2006 — Professor Malcolm Willcock, to be precise, the gentlest, finest of academics who taught the ghastly Fisk Latin and…
Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold –…
Here in America, I stare at the land in which I live and see a landscape I do not recognise I call…
The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase, is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule on…
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