Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent at the Independent. His next book, with Henry Cockburn, is Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, a Father and Son’s Story.

In the LRB Archive:

• How Not to Invade: Lebanon · 5 August 2010

  • Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst
  • The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle by Michael Young

• Return to Afghanistan: a report from Kabul · 11 June 2009

• America Concedes · 18 December 2008

• Who rules in Baghdad?: Power Struggles in Iraq · 14 August 2008

• Iran v. America: A New Deal for Iraq · 19 June 2008

• Diary: Muqtada al-Sadr · 24 April 2008

• Who Is Whose Enemy?: Sunni v. Shia v. the US v. al-Qaida · 6 March 2008

• Will Turkey Invade?: with the Kurds · 15 November 2007

• Nowhere to Hide: a report from Iraq · 22 February 2007

• After Zarqawi: Another spurious turning point in Iraq · 6 July 2006

• What the neighbours are up to: On the Iranian Border · 8 June 2006

• Diary: The End of Iraq · 6 April 2006

• Diary: Civil War in Baghdad · 20 October 2005

• Looking for Someone to Kill: in Baghdad · 4 August 2005

• Diary: a report from a divided Iraq · 19 May 2005

• Diary: The Iraqi elections · 17 February 2005

• Helping Bush Win Re-Election: Iraq’s disintegration · 7 October 2004

• Diary: Iraq after the handover · 22 July 2004

• Diary: The uprisings in Iraq · 20 May 2004

• Diary: a report from Baghdad · 18 March 2004

• Diary: in Iraq · 6 November 2003

• Diary: a report from Baghdad · 24 July 2003

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