Charles Glass

Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. He is the author of Deserter: The Untold Story of World War Two and Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria.

In the LRB Archive:

• In No Hurry: Anthony Shadid · 21 February 2013

  • House of Stone by Anthony Shadid

• Hyper-Retaliation: The Levant · 8 March 2012

  • Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
  • Beirut by Samir Kassir, translated by M.B. Debevoise

• Whose Body?: ‘Operation Mincemeat’ · 22 July 2010

  • Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre

• Melancholy Actions: Scuttling the French Fleet · 17 December 2009

  • England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith

• Belts Gleaming: Uri Avnery · 11 June 2009

  • 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem by Uri Avnery, translated by Christopher Costello
  • Israel’s Vicious Circle by Uri Avnery, edited by Sara Powell

• Learning from Its Mistakes: Hizbullah · 17 August 2006

• Cyber-Jihad: What Osama Said · 9 March 2006

  • The Secret History of al-Qaida by Abdel Bari Atwan
  • Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
  • Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth
  • Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal

• An Assassin’s Land: Lebanon without the Syrians · 4 August 2005

• Diary: in Mosul · 16 December 2004

• ‘You can have patience or you can have carnage’: in Afghanistan · 18 November 2004

• ‘It was necessary to uproot them’: post-Zionist historiography · 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: Terror on the High Seas · 18 December 2003

• Is Syria next? · 24 July 2003

• Saddamism after Saddam: After the Invasion · 8 May 2003

• I blame the British: a report from Lake Dokan · 17 April 2003

• Waiting to Watch the War: a report from an observation post in Northern Iraq · 3 April 2003

• Iraq Must Go!: The Making and Unmaking of Iraq · 3 October 2002

• Diary: Israel’s occupation of Palestine · 21 February 2002

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• Balfour, Weizmann and the Creation of Israel: Palestine · 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

• The Great Lie: Israel · 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

• Return to Nowhere: Yasser Arafat · 18 March 1999

  • Arafat: From Defender to Dictato by Said Aburish

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