The Kufa Review: Notable Iraqi journal that you may want to check out.

The Kufa Review publishes Arabic and English articles on historical, political, philosophic and linguistic topics. The journal has just won a prize for being the best peer-reviewed journal in Iraq. The co-editors-in-chief of the journal are Hassan Nadhem and Abbas Kadhim (an IISBU senior fellow).  Congratulations to Hassan and Abbas for their first-rate accomplishment, and for all the hard work they have invested in making the journal a success.

All issues of the journal are available for download as PDFs.

Ahmed S. Hashim: Iraq's Chaos in the Boston Review

This is an excellent piece written by a veteran scholar who has recent field experience in Iraq.

A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects (washingtonpost.com)

A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects (washingtonpost.com)

Most Americans don't think very much about what might happen to captured terror suspects. Better not to ask too many questions lest we uncover unpleasantries. This piece offers a glimpse of the nether world into which many of these people fall. This piece is unusual for the glimpse that it provides.