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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afghanistan
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...
'You can have patience or you can have carnage'
The London Review of Books 18 Nov 04
Kabul, since 1776 the nominal if forever ignored capital of Afghanistan, hides itself within thousands of forbidding walls. Mounds of ancient brick race up hillsides, remnants of the fifth-century ramparts that failed to preserve decadent Hindu rule from Mughal conquest. Every private house and most public buildings are set inside mud and brick enclosures that give the city an unwelcoming...
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american empire
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...
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britain
The Last of England
Harper's Magazine 01 Nov 05
"The facts are simple enough. If we had left the olive groves and the cotton fields and the oil wells of this region alone, we might not have had to worry about this equilibrium - least not yet. But we have not left them alone. We have sent our ideas and our ideals, and our motion pictures and our radio...
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india/pakistan
Have we learnt nothing from Rwanda?
The Observer 09 Jun 02
India and Pakistan are at war. A million troops stand mobilised on either side of the 1972 line of control that separates the two countries in Kashmir. Civilians on both sides are dying in artillery exchanges. Pakistani-armed militants have attacked Indian troops and civilians in India. Pakistan and India have, by international consensus, at least 200 nuclear warheads between them....
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iraq
An antidote to the lies about Iraq
The First Post 08 Apr 08
If you want the truth about the 'Iraq War', two books by Patrick Cockburn are a good place to start, says Charles Glass...
Stay the course
Taki's Top Drawer 14 Sep 07
There was enough brass in the room to forge a cannon. The generals were all there, the joint chiefs and the commanders from the front lines. They came along to tell the senators why America could not quit now....
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israel/palestine
The power network
The New Statesman 15 May 08
Publicly, Israel will not do business with those who do not recognise it. But behind the scenes is a complex web of international contacts....
Obituary of Imad Mougnieh: Elusive Hizbollah leader
The Independent 16 Feb 08
The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the US Marine headquarters later that year, the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985 and the kidnappings of dozens of American citizens in Lebanon throughout the 1980s. Israel blamed him for the suicide bombing that levelled its military command centre...
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journalism
My Mentor: Charles Glass on Peter Jennings
The Independent 26 Jun 06
The first time I ever saw Peter he was wearing a trench coat. It had belonged to his father, who was a venerated Canadian broadcaster. If you were going to make a film about a foreign correspondent you would cast Peter in that trench coat....
Peter Jennings
The Independent 09 Aug 05
Peter Charles Jennings, television and radio journalist: born Toronto, Ontario 29 July 1938; staff, ABC News 1964-2005, international anchor, World News Tonight, 1978-83, anchor and senior editor 1983-2005; married first Valerie Godsoe (marriage dissolved), secondly 1973 Annie Malouf (marriage dissolved), thirdly 1979 Kati Marton (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1994), fourthly 1997 Kayce Freed; died New York 7 August...
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lebanon
Obituary of Imad Mougnieh: Elusive Hizbollah leader
The Independent 16 Feb 08
The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the US Marine headquarters later that year, the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985 and the kidnappings of dozens of American citizens in Lebanon throughout the 1980s. Israel blamed him for the suicide bombing that levelled its military command centre...
What Luttwak didn't say
Prospect Issue 135 01 Jun 07
Edward Luttwak is right that the middle east is not important enough to fight over. That's why the US should withdraw from Iraq and stop providing aid to Israel....
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middle east - general
Obituary: John Cooley: Scholar-reporter on the Middle East
The Independent 22 Aug 08
John Cooley covered the Middle East for American newspapers and radio from 1953 until his death. As correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, he became the acknowledged dean of the American press corps in Beirut some time during his tenure there from 1965 to 1975. Like his British contemporary and Beirut neighbour David Hirst of The Guardian, Cooley was a...
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...
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miscellaneous
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...
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north america
A patriotic thought experiment
Taki's Top Drawer 04 Jul 07
"I am going to teach [them] to elect good men." --President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to invade Mexico. (Quoted in Peter Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. page 51.)...
Four More Years, How many more wars?
Independent on Sunday 05 Sep 04
Buoyed by the triumphalist Republican Convention that nominated him for re-election last week, President George W. Bush is looking for the real electoral mandate that eluded him four years ago. He may get it, if the first post-Convention poll published by Time magazine is right: Time puts him eleven percentage points ahead of John Kerry. Watch out....
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reviews
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...
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september 11
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...
11 September
London Review of Books 04 Oct 01
If I had been there and seen it up close in New York or Washington, I, too, might cry out for revenge. But I have been there at other times: in Libya, when American warplanes punished people who were asleep and unarmed; in Iraq, when America sent explosive messages to the dictator, killing the people that an American President had...
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spain
Fleeing the Horns
Saga Magazine, London, October 2003 01 Oct 03
'Won't it be splendid,' Brett said. 'Spain! We will have fun.' - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises It was my idea. It's been my idea for about 35 years. I like to think that, deep down, it is everyone's idea. If it hadn't been for Hemingway, I wonder if many foreigners would attend a bullfight festival held in...
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syria
From Beirut to Damascus
The Nation 28 Nov 05
In the autumn of 1972, arriving in Lebanon as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut, I discovered radical student politics. The mainly Palestinian-led student movements were only a few years behind Paris and New York, and strikes were common. When police raided sit-ins, students sang "We Shall Overcome." Discussions went on all night....
Bashar Assad: The Syrian Sphinx
The Independent 19 Feb 05
When Syria's young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater odds and won. Bashar was only 16 in 1982, when an uprising by Islamic fundamentalists and an Israeli invasion of Lebanon threatened the survival of the regime....
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the balkans
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...
Letter from London
Znet 02 Apr 99
The war against Slobodan Milosevic was clearly lost when the London papers ran a front-page photograph of Defence Secretary George Robertson in Italy aboard a warplane. This isn't a war, it's a photo op for politicians who have never seen battle. With friends like British prime minister Tony Blair and his comic book hero, Bill Clinton, Kosovo's Albanians will be...
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travel
Back to the old hacienda
The Independent 25 Jun 05
Something bit me. In fact, lots of things were gnawing at me. Their chewing progressed up my leg to my back and face - and no, I wasn't dreaming. I leapt out of bed, grabbed a torch and surveyed the sheets. A column of ants was marching under the front door, over my bed and out into the garden. The...
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