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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Review of 'Aida'
Online Review London 26 May 07
The Richmond Theatre 30 April - 5 May 2007 Following Aida's premier in Cairo in December 1871, Verdi wrote, "This opera is one of my less bad." It was probably his most popular, earning him - in addition to the $20,000 (a fortune at the time) that the Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt paid him for the commission - more...
Death of a billionaire PM
The Spectator 07 Oct 06
Review of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri And Its Impact On The Middle East by Nicholas Blandford...
A bargain-basement Odysseus
14 Mar 06
As a young American infantry officer in London awaiting his D-Day orders, Gardner Botsford met an English couple - a civilian accountant, middle-aged and very pleasant, and his middle-aged very pleasant wife - who invited [him] to drop in at their flat in Chelsea that evening after dinner. To Botsford's surprise, the little party featured not well-cooked rationed food, but...
Cyber-Jihad
London Review of Books Vol. 28, No. 5 12 Mar 06
When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me. That was in 1956, when he buried the Hungarian Revolution. In California we welcomed Hungarian victims of Soviet brutality while finding no room for the Guatemalans whose democracy the CIA had crushed two years earlier. We were trained to ignore...
"Shoot the Crow" Review
Online Review London 14 Oct 05
Trafalgar Studios, London, 28 Sept - 10 Dec 2005 The day that Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature may not have been the best to see any play in London. Most contemporary theatre cannot match Pinter, and "Shoot the Crow" is no "Birthday Party," "Homecoming," "Hothouse" or "Lover." That does not mean that "Shoot the Crow" is a...
Lewis of Arabia
The Nation 13 Sep 04
Review of From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and later Samuel Huntington, designated the "clash of civilizations" between Christendom and Islam up close in at least two wars. One was the Lebanese civil war that erupted in the spring of 1975, pitting universal values and tolerance against sectarianism and...
Review of Tim Robbins' Embedded
The Independent 10 Sep 04
The Bush administration's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are proving to be as good to the theatre as they have been to America's major arms dealers....
'It was necessary to uproot them'
London Review of Books 24 Jun 04
Reviews of: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe Cambridge, 333 pp, £15.99 The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst Faber, 624 pp, £16.99 The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris Cambridge, 664 pp, £70.00...
A prejudice as American as apple pie - American filmmaker Ed Zwick's 'The Siege'
The New Statesman 20 Nov 98
A new film that depicts Arabs as blood-thirsty terrorists is creating a storm in the States. Charles Glass, in New York, sees a sinister reason for its success....
For Love of Justice: The Life of a Quixotic Soldier
The New Statesman 24 Jul 98
Major Derek Cooper is one of the last of that endangered species, the English gentleman. Though his own memoirs, Dangerous Liaison (published last year by Michael Russell), were subtitled "an Irish Pimpernel's war diary", Cooper was born in Kent, in 1912, into what his sister called the "wealthy middle class" of England. The Coopers owned a printing firm and his...
Now and Then: A Memoir from Coney Island to Here
20 Mar 98
Now and Then is a detailed guide to subway travel and cheap food in 1930s Coney Island, New York. It begins in Coney Island, lingers in Coney Island and, somehow, ends in Coney Island. Its title could have been No Escape from Coney Islandor - because the author also wrote Catch-22 - Catch a Life in Here if You Can....
The Oxford Mark Twain
The New Statesman 19 Sep 97
Mark Twain knew the value of bad publicity. In 1885, when the Public Library of Concord, Massachusetts, banned Huckleberry Finn, he wrote to his publisher: "They have expelled Huck from their library as 'trash suitable only for the slums'. That will sell 25,000 copies for us for sure."...
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