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How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World’s First Writing System

How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World’s First Writing System

Bartle Bull on the Mesopotamian Origins of Modern Civilization

By Bartle Bull | November 22, 2024

What the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em> Reveals About Sumerian Society

What the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society

Paul Cooper on Economic, Intellectual and Creative Development in the Ancient Near East

By Paul Cooper | July 24, 2024

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar on Resisting Al Qaeda, Reading John Stuart Mill, and Eating a Good Kebab

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar on Resisting Al Qaeda, Reading John Stuart Mill, and Eating a Good Kebab

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 24, 2023

A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the High Costs of Post-Saddam Iraq

By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad | March 14, 2023

After Combat, Writing the Horrific Stories of War

After Combat, Writing the Horrific Stories of War

Bill Glose on Drawing from Real Life

By Bill Glose | August 2, 2022

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

Michael R. Gordon on the Origins of America’s War Against the Islamic State

By Michael R. Gordon | July 26, 2022

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Three Poems by Rebin Kheder

By Rebin Kheder | February 11, 2022

How the Mosul Book Forum Became a Hub of Expression in a Struggling City

By Hannah McCarthy | December 9, 2021

A Collective Delusion: On the End of the War in Afghanistan

By Open Source | September 3, 2021

How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

Rafia Zakaria on American Neoimperialism Lies of Liberation

By Rafia Zakaria | August 19, 2021

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

Elly Fishman on What It Means to Earn the Trust of Her Teenage Subjects

By Elly Fishman | August 12, 2021

The U.S. has finally taken back the Epic of Gilgamesh . . . from Hobby Lobby.

The U.S. has finally taken back the Epic of Gilgamesh . . . from Hobby Lobby.

By Walker Caplan | July 28, 2021

How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

Translator Mona Kareem on His Writing and View of History

By Mona Kareem | May 27, 2021

On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

Daniel Elkind Rereads James Chapman’s TV-War Novel
GLASS (pray the electrons back to sand)

By Daniel Elkind | February 18, 2021

How the Trump Presidency Became a Hotbed of Conspiracy Theory

How the Trump Presidency Became a Hotbed of Conspiracy Theory

David Rohde on Truth and Misinformation

By David Rohde | April 21, 2020

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

Fadhil al-Azzawi, a Countercultural Literary Force

By Farouk Yousif | September 12, 2019

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