Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating …
Category Archives: Iraq
Alhaam: A Film from Iraq — 2005
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi …
The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …
Saqi Books: History, Fiction and Food from the Middle World
I’ve come across a very lively publisher of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish translations to English, histories of the region, biographies, …
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
A book of contemporary writers from Iraq should be a welcome corrective to the bias our current notions of Iraq …
The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq
The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier …
Two Books from City Lights
City Lights Books had two books of its own publishing house arrive today. Don’t stop wanting them until they are …