The Northern Frontby Charles Glass 
The Northern Front is an eyewitness account of the Iraqi opposition's preparations for the American invasion, the Kurdish planning in northern Iraq and the early stages of the war when some of the opposition moved to the south. Order a copy through Al Saqi Books
The Tribes Triumphantby Charles Glass 
The Tribes Triumphant completes the story of Charles Glass' earlier Middle East adventure, Tribes With Flags, after his kidnapping by Hizballah in Lebanon.
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Tribes With Flagsby Charles Glass 
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Money For Old Ropeby Charles Glass 
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Farewell, my father: the sun sets on my horizon
The Spectator 12 Mar 08
Charles Glass pays tribute to the man who was his measure in all things, and whom he thought, like all sons, would be there forever...
Diary
New Statesman 31 Mar 06
I just took the Métro up to the 17th arrondissement for a party to welcome the new editor of the Paris Review, Philip Gourevitch. (The Review, although born in Paris in 1953 under George Plimpton, is published in New York.) The beautiful Susannah Hunnewell, who was hosting the party, answered the door in distinctly un-hostess mode. No tray of dry...
Free speech is for everyone - even David Irving
The Independent 29 Nov 05
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." - Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations General Assembly Resolution, 10 December 1948....
Born in the USA
The Oldie 01 Sep 05
The Homeland Security officer at Houston airport asked what we were going to do in the United States. I wanted to tell him that it was none of his business. I am a native born citizen. I have studied the Constitution. My family emigrated - or, more likely, were transported - three centuries ago to the North American colonies that...
They stood me up
The Spectator 22 Jan 05
For the sixth time in as many months, a woman has cancelled our dinner. In and of itself, a cancelled dinner is a trifle. The cancellations themselves were less surprising than the timing and the method. Did the women, all of whom are friends, give me time to make alternative arrangements? Did they call? Did they explain or apologise? Did...
The new piracy
The London Review of Books 18 Dec 03
On the morning of 17 April 1998, the Singapore merchant ship Petro Ranger set sail carrying 9600 tonnes of diesel and 1200 tonnes of Jet A-1 fuel for delivery to Vietnam. Three hours beyond Singapore's territorial waters, north of what is called the Horsburgh Light, the Petro Ranger's Australian captain, Ken Blyth, found himself surrounded by armed men on the...
Terror on the High Seas?
ABC News 10 Sep 03
In the first half of this year, pirates attacked 234 ships, an increase of almost 40 percent over seaborne assaults reported last year to the International Maritime Bureau. What is more, pirates are becoming more violent and are adopting more sophisticated techniques - involving patrol boats, mother ships, modern communications and automatic weapons....
Diary - celebrating a fiftieth birthday
The New Statesman 29 Jan 01
The best thing about turning 50 is that you've had time to develop a healthy narcissism. While I tap out these syllables on the first day of my 51st year, waiters at Christopher's new restaurant in Victoria are laying the tables for the guests who will assemble to celebrate my 50th birthday....
Sex, the city and the Dona Juanas - predatory females do not inspire great art
The New Statesman 12 Feb 99
Predatory males inspired great art. Their female counterparts don't. My friend Rupert confessed that the flame-haired American girl, who used to go out with a friend of his, scared him. The basement club in Soho was, as they all are, overcrowded, noisy and hot. The girl introduced herself, then said she wanted to leave. Rupe, a little slow on the...
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