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David Hare & Orhan Pamuk In Salzburg

August 14, 2008 issue

Big Ideas for a New President

Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership

by Madeleine Albright, with Bill Woodward

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation

by Strobe Talbott

The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise

by Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen

April 17, 2008 issue

Saying the Unsayable

Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World

by Kanan Makiya

May 27, 1993 issue

Iraq: The Road Not Taken

May 16, 1991 issue

Iraq’s Chemical Warfare

November 22, 1990 issue

The Thief of Baghdad

Saddam Hussein: A Biography

by Fuad Matar

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq

by Samir al-Khalil

Iraqi Power and US Security in the Middle East

by Stephen C. Pelletiere and Douglas V. Johnson II and Leif R. Rosenberger

Human Rights in Iraq

Middle East Watch

September 27, 1990 issue

Letter

Douglas V. Johnson II

Iraq’s Chemical Warfare

November 22, 1990 issue

The Road Not Taken

The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon

by Fouad Ajami

October 9, 1986 issue

Letter

Charles Issawi

Pleasures of Lebanon

January 15, 1987 issue

Yalta & the Fate of Poland

May 29, 1986 issue

To the Tehran Station

The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

by Roy Mottahedeh

January 30, 1986 issue

The Faraway War

The Soviets invested considerable resources—material and above all moral—in Afghanistan. Retreating without leaving a Communist government in power will be difficult to disguise as anything other than a humiliating defeat.

Report from Afghanistan

by Gérard Chaliand, translated by Tamar Jacoby

In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey

by Jere Van Dyk

A Hitch or Two in Afghanistan: A Journey behind Russian Lines

by Nigel Ryan

Behind Russian Lines: An Afghan Journal

by Sandy Gall

Afghanistan and the Soviet Union

by Henry S. Bradsher

Red Flag over Afghanistan: The Communist Coup, the Soviet Invasion and Their Consequences

by Thomas T. Hammond

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