New York- My frontline work in Iraq in the heady days of the war against IS-known as Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve in American security speak-was cited in a research report published by the Rand Corporation. The report titled…
The Transcendence of the Tanbur
New York- Yes, I’m doing another quick tanbur post. In all my years traveling across Iraq and Syria as a reporter and analyst, there was a lot of downtime while waiting in limbo for access to this or that story…
My Work in Iraq Cited by the Library of Congress
New York- My work in Syria and Iraq was cited by the Library of Congress and the London-based openDemocracy respectively. My fieldwork in northern Syria’s Idlib governorate for Janes Islamic Affairs Analyst was given a hat tip in “Unrest in…
Kurdistan’s Mystical Tanbur
New York- Something I happened in my years covering the era of the terror wars known in the Anglosphere more formally as Operation Inherent Resolve-more simply the war against the so-called Islamic State-was the mystical sound of the tanbur. The…
TWD’s Fieldwork in the Qandil Mountains Cited
New Yiork- My fieldwork on Kurdish militancy in the Qandil mountains of Iraq’s Erbil governorate was cited by the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies published by Metropolitan University Prague. In The PKK’s Friends and Foes in the…
New Vlog on the 24th Anniversary of 9/11
New York- Join me as I ride from midtown to Ground Zero last week on the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I talk about my experiences that day and recent developments in the 9/11 families’ search for Saudi complicity nearly a…