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Charles Glass

Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.

From the London Review dated 24 July 2003

Is Syria next?

“Iraq has become an American protectorate, and America has told Syria that it must, like a rare breed of bird, adapt to the new environment or die. The Syrian Army and Intelligence Services are playing their own imperial game in Lebanon, but their presence there has become as vulnerable to American subversion as America’s forces are to indigenous resistance – with or without Syrian and Iranian encouragement – in Iraq.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • The Northern Front: A Wartime Diary (2006)
  • The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East (2006)
  • Money for Old Rope (1992)
  • Tribes with Flags: A Journey Curtailed (1989)

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In the LRB archive

Learning from Its Mistakes · 17 August 2006

Cyber-Jihad · 9 March 2006

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  • Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer  Buy this book
  • Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth  Buy this book
  • Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal  Buy this book

subscriber-only content An Assassin’s Land · 4 August 2005

subscriber-only content Diary: Charles Glass in Mosul · 16 December 2004

subscriber-only content ‘You can have patience or you can have carnage’ · 18 November 2004

subscriber-only content ‘It was necessary to uproot them’ · 24 June 2004

  • A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
  • The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst
  • The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris

The New Piracy · 18 December 2003

Is Syria next? · 24 July 2003

subscriber-only content Saddamism after Saddam · 8 May 2003

subscriber-only content I blame the British · 17 April 2003

subscriber-only content Waiting to Watch the War · 3 April 2003

subscriber-only content Iraq Must Go! · 3 October 2002

subscriber-only content Diary · 21 February 2002

11 September · 4 October 2001

subscriber-only content Balfour, Weizmann and the Creation of Israel · 7 June 2001

  • One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
  • Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-48 by Naomi Shepherd

subscriber-only content The Great Lie · 30 November 2000

  • The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
  • Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 by Benny Morris
  • A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East by Amos Elon
  • Fabricating Israeli History: The ‘New Historians’ by Efraim Karsh
  • From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism by Amnon Rubinstein

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Return to Nowhere · 18 March 1999

  • Arafat: From Defender to Dictato by Said Aburish

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