The silence on Syria

In a candid interview, Laura Hughes talks to journalist Charles Glass about Syria and the silence eminating from the world…

Judge Not the Deserters

There were 50,000 American deserters in WWII, whose experiences have been erased from history. But Charles Glass, author of the…

This month Iraq and Syria are both noting, but not celebrating, anniversaries of violence that transformed the two societies.

“My heroes have always been cowboys,” Willie Nelson sang, a sentiment I shared when I was a child in California.…

In the northern Provençal region of the Luberon, plane trees shade the highway in the long valley between Forcalquier and…

Russia and Iran are providing weapons and ammunition to Syria’s President Assad, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar deliver arms through…

Review of House of Stone by Anthony Shadid Granta, 336 pp, £14.99, August 2012, ISBN 978 1 84708 735 5…

After the terrible bloodletting on the battlefields, the fever began to die down. People looked war in the face with…

Veteran journalist Charles Glass joins us to discuss his recent trip to Syria and its largest city, Aleppo. Addressing U.S.-led…

This year, Aleppo will produce no soap. The late-medieval souks in which craftsmen fashioned blocks of the famous olive oil…