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Jeffrey Gedmin has, since February 2007, been president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where he directs broadcasting and Internet operations in twenty-eight languages and where, with an annual budget [...]

There is a tendency in Western capitals to dismiss adversarial Iranian behavior as the work of rogue regime factions, which are not representative of Tehran's true intentions. Following a Baghdad [...]

The Iraq war has pumped adrenaline into the publishing industry. Whereas five years ago, few bookstores included any selections on Iraq, today dozens of Iraq books line the shelves. There [...]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Reconciliation Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) swept to victory in Turkey's parliamentary elections on November 3, 2002. More than two years later, the Islamic-oriented [...]

Ahmad Chalabi is the leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC). He was born in Baghdad in October 1944 to one of Iraq's most prominent families. (His father, 'Abd al-Hadi, [...]

Jalal Talabani has been president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) since the organization's founding in 1977. Born in Kelkan in 1933, he actively participated in the Iraqi Kurdish [...]

On September 11, the world changed--or at least some of it did. Iraq did not. While the rest of the world mourned, or at least nominally condemned the terrorist attack, [...]

Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict. Edited by Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone, and Ben Rowswell. Boulder: Rienner Press, 2007. 351 pp. $24.50. The International Peace Academy (IPA), [...]

The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. By Ali A. Allawi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.518 pp. $28. There is no shortage of accounts by U.S. [...]

The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. Edited by Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry, and Khaled Salih. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.355 pp. $45. The Kurdistan National Assembly in Erbil, Iraq, [...]

In April 2004, followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a well-coordinated uprising across southern Iraq. While Western media focused on events in Sadr City, Najaf, and Karbala, violence [...]

Architects of Delusion Europe, America, and the Iraq War by Simon Serfaty Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 170 pp. $45. Serfaty, a professor of U.S. foreign policy at Old [...]

Still Broken A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon by A.J. Rossmiller New York: Presidio Press, 2008. 236 pp. $24.95 Rossmiller dedicates the first half [...]

Muhammad's Grave Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 400 pp. $38 Western policymakers and academics often concern themselves with [...]

Nights in the Pink Motel An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq by Robert Earle Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. 256 pp. $34.95. Hundreds of U.S. diplomats and officials [...]

Circle in the Sand The Bush Dynasty in Iraq by Christian Alfonsi New York: Vintage, 2007. 470 pp. $15.95. "Bush derangement syndrome"--the irrational hatred of George W. Bush and the [...]

Baghdad at Sunrise by Peter R. Mansoor New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 376 pp. $28. Few soldiers who write narratives of war attain a perspective that transcends their own [...]

British Policy in Mesopotamia, 1903-1914 by Stuart A. Cohen Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2008. 265 pp. $34.50. As U.S. forces occupied Iraq in 2003, numerous historians scrambled to elucidate lessons [...]

Swimming Up the Tigris by Barbara Nimri Aziz Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007. 314 pp. $24.95 Aziz, a freelance reporter and host of an Arab-interest radio show in New [...]

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East by Olivier Roy New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 160 pp. $24.95 Roy, research director at the Centre National de la Recherche [...]

Losing the Golden Hour An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction by James Stephenson Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. 174 pp. $23.95 Insider accounts of Iraq's occupation are a dime a [...]

War and Decision by Douglas J. Feith New York: Harper, 2008. 674 pp. $27.95 Former U.S. officials, military officers, and journalists have penned dozens of books about the decision to [...]

Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism, and the Six Day War by Moshe Shemesh Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. 346 pp. $75 In this latest book, his fifth in English, Shemesh, [...]

Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success. By Anthony H. Cordesman. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2006.410 pp. $49.95. Cordesman prolifically chronicles Middle Eastern military affairs, and Iraqi Security Forces is […]

Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. By Maziar Behrooz. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999.239 pp. $55. The political left in Iran has long played an active [...]

Only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (and the breakaway Chechen government) recognize the Taliban state, but the self-styled Islamic Emirate is a fact of life. Taliban rule [...]

The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon. By Tamara Chalabi. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 227 pp. +xvii. $69.95. Both Western and Arabic-language histories have neglected the Shi'ites of […]