Posts Tagged with ‘Iraq’
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War Porn – Roy Scranton’s Unremitting Gaze
12 Dec 2017War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but…
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American Sniper: A Veteran Has His Say
11 Feb 2015From Waging Nonviolence via Salon,an excellent look at American Sniper, its protagonist and the culture that creates him. Chris Kyle…
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Donald Rumsfeld: Still in Denial
06 Jan 2014Mark Danner reviews two books and a documentary film about Donald Rumsfeld in the January 9 edition of the New…
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Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
03 Jun 2013Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating…
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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
09 Jun 2011Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25…
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Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
25 Apr 2011A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq…
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The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq
17 Apr 2011The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier…
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The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iraq
29 Mar 2011Fadhil al-Azzawi’s 1992 The Last of the Angels while not a particularly long book (275 pages in the Free Press…
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Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel
09 Dec 2006In my new zeal to see all the movies I’ve ever missed I saw The Story of the Weeping Camel…
