War Porn – Roy Scranton’s Unremitting Gaze
War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but …
Tag Archives: Iraq
American Sniper: A Veteran Has His Say
From Waging Nonviolence via Salon,an excellent look at American Sniper, its protagonist and the culture that creates him. Chris Kyle …
Donald Rumsfeld: Still in Denial
Mark Danner reviews two books and a documentary film about Donald Rumsfeld in the January 9 edition of the New …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iraq
Fadhil al-Azzawi’s 1992 The Last of the Angels while not a particularly long book (275 pages in the Free Press …
Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel
In my new zeal to see all the movies I’ve ever missed I saw The Story of the Weeping Camel …