When Hadani Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997 for the New York Times, she was shocked at what she saw. Six years of the worst sanctions ever inflicted on a modern nation had brought the people to their knees. Yet there was so much more to the "cradl...
Every morning for the past six years, Rania al-Baz has been the smiling face of a family programme on Saudi television. She was a young, beautiful Saudi TV news presenter — the first woman to have such a job — when her abusive husband beat her into a...
In 2004, the United States waged one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. For many the city was a symbol of resistance to the US war and occupation; since the battle it has become a symbol of the worst...
Iraq's contemporary image provides few clues to the magnificence and power of her past. As Mesopotamia ("land between the two rivers"), Iraq, which lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was probably the earliest centre of human civilisation....
Palestine: A Traveller's Guide is an insider's look at where, and how, Palestinians live today. This remarkable tour through the historic Palestinian homeland is guided by some of the country's most gifted writers, journalists, academics and p...
WIDENING OPPOSITION TO THE ILLEGAL IRAQ WAR, growing recognition that the war in Afghanistan has failed to bring stability or democracy to that beleaguered country, new tensions rising in Pakistan, escalating violence and humanitarian crisis in the...
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War on Lebanon Edited by Nubar Hovsepian Foreword by Rashid Khalidi
Israel’s 34-day bombardment of Lebanon in the summer of 2006 — in which more than 1000 Lebanese civilians lost their lives — is one of the most tragic events to take place in the Middle East this century. It was unleashed in the context of the contin...
