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March 21, 2013

Mark Kukis on Voices from Iraq and the Nation’s Future

“The experience of the U.S. invasion and occupation scarred the country much more deeply than even I as a correspondent there imagined.”—Mark Kukis Upon the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we are re-posting an earlier interview with...

June 23, 2011

Interview with Mark Kukis, author of Voices from Iraq

“The experience of the U.S. invasion and occupation scarred the country much more deeply than even I as a correspondent there imagined.”—Mark Kukis In a recent interview with Time magazine, Mark Kukis discussed his recently published book Voices from Iraq:...

March 22, 2013

Marc Lynch: What’s Missing from the Iraq Debate

“On the 10th anniversary of the invasion, we should be hearing a lot more from them — and a lot less from the former American officials and pundits who got it wrong the first time.”—Marc Lynch Amid the many discussion...

March 19, 2013

Voices from Iraq: What the U.S. Invasion Felt Like to Iraqis

Mark Kukis author Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009 recently discussed the stories of some of the people he interviewed for the book on Juan Cole’s blog Informed Comment. In particular, Kukis shares some of the reactions of a...

March 18, 2013

Book Giveaway: Voices from Iraq

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. During the week, we will be featuring books and authors’ perspectives on Iraq. In particular, the extraordinary work by Mark Kukis, Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009...

May 27, 2011

Voices from Iraq: "The occupier is still here."

May 26, 2011

Voices from Iraq: Usra J'Bara Hadi and Standing Up to Sectarian Violence

“These terrorists were trying to do whatever they could to displace us. There were Sunnis in our village as well, by the way. About half the families were Sunni and the other half Shi’ites. We all banded together against these...

May 25, 2011

Voices from Iraq: The Return of an Exile

“What I did not understand was how much damage had been done to the minds of Iraqi people. I was naive.” In Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009, Mithal Al-Alusi describes his return to Iraq after nearly thirty years...

May 24, 2011

Voices from Iraq: Omar Yousef Hussein, Insurgent

“We made our way to the road. There were some shepherds there with sheep. They saw us planting the bomb but said nothing. It all seemed like a game, honestly.” The following excerpt from Voices from Iraq: A People’s History,...

May 23, 2011

Voices from Iraq: Ali Al-Shaheen

“I cried for Iraq. To me the fall of that statue was a symbol for the fall of the country, not just one dictator.” Mark Kukis’s Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009 collects testimonies from a wide range of...

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