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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 Charles Glass is a freelance writer and broadcaster, who began his journalistic career in 1973 at the ABC News Beirut bureau with Peter Jennings. He covered the October Arab-Israeli War in Syria and Egypt and the civil war in Lebanon, where artillery fire wounded him in 1976. He became Chief Middle East correspondent of ABC News in 1983, a post he held in Beirut and London for 10 years. Since 1993, he has been a freelance writer in Paris, Tuscany, Venice and London, publishing books, short stories, essays and articles in the United States and Europe.
In 1986, Glass interviewed the hostage crew of TWA flight 847 on the tarmac of Beirut Airport. He broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages from the plane and hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut, causing the Reagan Administration to abort a rescue attempt. In 1987, Glass himself was abducted and held hostage for two months before escaping from his Shiite Muslim captors. In 1988, he exposed Saddam Hussein's then-secret biological weapons programme. The U.S. government rejected Glass's claims, until Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. In addition, Glass was the only U.S. television correspondent in northern Iraq covering the entire Kurdish rebellion in 1991. One year later, he went alone with a hidden camera to Indonesian-occupied East Timor and, despite government restrictions, filmed and filed a report on repression and torture. This report influenced a U.S. Senate committee to vote to suspend U.S. military aid to Indonesia. He has covered wars in Eritrea, Rhodesia, Somalia, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He was the overseas and investigative correspondent for CNN & TIME, a weekly newsmagazine that ran on CNN until 2001. He covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ABC News and Harper's magazine. He returned to Iraq in 2004 for The Independent and the London Review of Books.
Glass has served as correspondent for Newsweek magazine and The Observer. For more thirty years, he has been a regular contributor and columnist in newspapers and magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom. His work has appeared in TIME magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Daily News, The Guardian, The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, The Independent and Independent on Sunday, The Spectator, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ and The American Conservative. He has published short fiction in Granta and The London Magazine. He is a special correspondent for London Review of Books.
Glass has published the books Tribes with Flags (Picador), Money for Old Rope (Picador), The Tribes Triumphant (Harper Collins) and The Northern Front (Saqi Books). He is currently writing a Second World War history, Two Loves: Americans Under German Occupation in Paris for Penguin Books in the United States and Harper-Collins in Britain. He has made many documentary films for U.S. and British television, including "Pity the Nation: Charles Glass' Lebanon"; "Iraq: Enemies of the State" about military escalation and human rights abuses, broadcast six months before Iraq invaded Kuwait; "Stains of War" about war photographers; "The Forgotten Faithful" about the Palestinian Christian exodus from the West Bank; "Our Man in Cairo"; "Islam" for London Weekend Television; and "Sadat: An Action Biography" for ABC. His film "Edward Said: The Last Interview" was shown at the ICA in London, the British Museum and other cinemas around the world. For his reporting and investigative pieces, Glass has been honored by the Overseas Press Club and has shared Commonwealth and George Foster Peabody Awards. A native of Los Angeles, he took his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from the University of Southern California and did graduate studies at the American University of Beirut. He has three children and two stepdaughters, and he is a dual US/UK citizen.
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