London Review of Books: Among the Alawites
Islamists and the Syrian Uprising
Article on the challenges faced by Alawites opposed to the Syrian regime
Q&A with me about the future in Syria
Q&A with me about daily life in Syria
Q&A with me about Syrian sectarianism
Q&A with me about the Syrian protest movement
Q&A with me about the Syrian insurgency
Articles from my July 2011-September 2011 trip to Syria
Part 1 of my series on Syria: The revolution will be weaponised
Part 2 of my series on Syria: Armed defenders of Syria’s revolution
Part 1 of 3 in my Series on Syrian Demonstrations
Part 2 of 3 in my Series on Syrian Demonstrations
Part 3 of 3 in my Series on Syrian Demonstrations
On Syria’s Mufti Hassoun and his slain son
Paris Match: SYRIE: LE PEUPLE VISÉ À BOUT PORTANT
Excerpt from Aftermath about the Battle of Nahr al Bared in Lebanon and Sunni sectarianism
Excerpt from Aftermath about the Halba massacre in north Lebanon
Excerpt from Aftermath about Sunni militias in Lebanon’s lawless Beqaa Valley
Excerpt from Aftermath about the demise of the Iraqi Awakening groups
Excerpt from Aftermath about the war in Afghanistan
Interview about Aftermath with Harper’s Scott Horton
Interview about Aftermath with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald (transcript and audio)
Text of my speech critiquing Western media coverage of the Middle East (al jazeera)
My Article on the Significance of the Bin Laden Killing
My Article on Regional Sectarianism
My Article on the Persecution of Yemeni Shiites
My Article on the Yemeni regime’s persecution of a cartoonist and journalist
An Article on Yemeni State Repression
New Statesman article about the revolution in Yemen
Thoughts on revolution, Saudi Arabia and Qat
Foreign Policy: Comparing Iraq to Afghanistan
The Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army
On the Iraqi political impasse and the US role
Iraq’s next chapter: power shift as Awakening languishes
On the Shabab attacks in Somalia
and a companion piece on who are the Shabab
Independent Film Channel Documentary on Afghanistan
The End of Violent Sectarianism in Iraq
Iraq on the eve of the 2010 elections
On counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
On the Anniversary of the Beirut Marine Barracks Bombings
Post Surge Iraq, a look at Washash and Basra
On Iraq, the Awakening Groups, the End of the Civil War
On Iraq Six Years After the Fall of Baghdad
الفلسطينيون يستعيدون معركة خيبر… والأنفاق «خطة» عسكرية قديمة
On the Gaza Attacks for the Guardian
Reaction to attack on Gaza for the National
“The Broken State” Afghanistan
“How we Lost the War we Won” (Rolling Stone Magazine article about the Taliban)
“We Run the Road” Radical Sunnis in Lebanon’s Majd al Anjar
“The Great Divide” The Sadrist movement in Baghdad
Nir Rosen vs. Senator Joe Biden at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Video of exchange between Nir Rosen and Senator Joe Biden
“Theater of the Absurd” The Americans release Shiite prisoners in Baghdad
Uprooted and Unstable: Meeting Urgent Humanitarian Needs in Iraq:
Egypt: Respond to the needs of Iraqi refugees:
Iraq: Fix the Public Distribution System to meet needs of the displaced:
“The Myth of the Surge” (Rolling Stone Magazine)
“Al-Qaeda in Lebanon” (Boston Review)
“Scapegoats in an Unwelcoming Land” (The Washington Post)
“No Going Back: Little Relief in Sight for Displaced Iraqis” (The Boston Review)
“What Bremer Got Wrong in Iraq” (The Washington Post)
“The Flight from Iraq” (New York Times Magazine)
“Security Contractors: Riding Shotgun with Our Shadow Army in Iraq” (Mother Jones)
“The Mayor, The Martyr, and the Pomegranate Trees” (Mother Jones)
“Leaving Iraq: The Grim Truth” (Rolling Stone)
“Anatomy of a Civil War” (The Boston Review)
“Hizb’Allah Party of God” (Truthdig.com)
“Hizb’Allah Party of God” in Arabic” (Wa3ad)
Did the Invasion Make Things Worse in Iraq?” (Salon.com)
“Thinking Like a Jihadist: Iraq’s Jordanian Connection” (World Policy Journal)
“Meanwhile…” (New York Daily News)
“Killing Fields” (The Washington Post)
“On the Ground in Iraq: The Roots of Sectarian Violence” (The Boston Review)
“Iraq’s Jordanian Jihadis” (The New York Times Magazine)
“Students, soldiers, sinners, spies: a journey through the terror of Pakistan”
My Essay in the Boston Review’s Iraq Exit Strategy Forum
“If America Left Iraq” for the Atlantic Monthly
“America’s Unlikely Savior: a Profile of Muqtada Sadr in Salon.com”
Profiling the Iraqi Elections in Kirkuk (The New York Times Magazine Magazine)
Analyzing the Iraqi Elections for Harper’s Magazine
Inside the Iraqi Resistance a Seven Part Series on Falluja for Asia Times
Published Letter to the Atlantic Monthly’s editor about Robert Kaplan’s Falluja Article
Unintended Consequences: A Forum on Iraq and the Mideast for The Nation Magazine
Every Time the Wind Blows: 5 part series with 3rd Armored Cavalry (Asia Times)
The New Republic: Gardez Dispatch on the Afghan Elections
Bullets and Ballots pre Afghan election series
The battle for Sunni hearts and minds
Defiant sheikhs and deadly shakedowns
In Tikrit, Sunnis are rising against U.S. occupation (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Marines Cast as Mongols (Time)
The Shi’ite voice that will be heard
Iraq’s cleric who would be heard
Muqtada’s powerful push for prominence
US newspaper ban plays into cleric’s hands
Beware of Iraq’s whipping boys
Shi’ite bombings: Civil war a step closer
Shi’ites hit at most sensitive moment
Iraq’s religious tide cannot be turned back
Just another Baghdad car bombing
How the Middle East is really being remade
“It’s All Bad News” Chaos in liberated Iraq
Iraq: Three from one doesn’t add up
American Intelligence and WMDs