Winter 2024

I support a war on the grounds that the current regime of the Ba’ath Party in Iraq is a criminal state that has gone beyond the pale even as judged by the very low standards of the Middle East region, …

A week or so after the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers and the attack on the Pentagon, I had this conversation with a friend who shall remain unnamed. “They could not have been Arabs,” he said. “Of course …

On August 18, 1994 President Saddam Hussein promulgated Law 109. It read: “According to Section 1, Article 42, of the Iraqi Constitution, the Revolutionary Command Council has decreed that . . . the foreheads of those individuals who repeat the …

The following is an excerpt from Kanan Makiya’s forthcoming book, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World, which we reprint with the permission of W.W. Norton & Co. The book is a remarkable examination by a dissident …