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May 21,2012
The Avant Garde: How we left Iraq...
It was the summer of 2005 and for the time being a group of us humanitarian workers had found an acceptable security situation in Khanaqin, a town in...
May 15,2012
From Hanoi to Baghdad. The Avant Garde of Western Civ.
Later on, that year, there were a growing number of Op-eds and other such analyses that were comparing Iraq to Vietnam and which, as a...
May 6,2012
An Increasingly Lonely Pursuit – March 2005
As Spring approached I had left my assignment in Iraq, briefly, to attend an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) meeting in Amman, Jordan.
I...
May 2,2012
Here is a stirring account of how America's intent to win hearts and minds through official largesse backfires - terribly.
April 29,2012
Green Zone: February, 2005
Co-incidentally there was a meeting of the minds (mine and the donors) that this was an appropriate and historic time for me to go to the Green Zone to both put faces...
April 22,2012
The Election
By January of 2005, the whole world was watching the great presumption of George W. Stumbling though the process had been - at times like a drunken sailor - through the blood and...
April 16,2012
R and R - December 2004: San Sebastian, Spain
The road back, I suspected, would be tough. I had told my wife that I only had about one more of these assignments in me - maybe two.
I had...
April 9,2012
Relocation – April, 2004
There are only a few months when the weather is pleasant in South Central - when one's brain is not starting to boil from the heat or when one is not forced to...
April 3,2012
The Egyptian military has never endeared itself to NGOs and rights groups, but the situation in recent months has been particularly discouraging. At the end of December, the military raided and...
April 2,2012
South Central, Iraq: January 2004
January in Kut was dismal. There was no infrastructure for draining the black water which covers the town during the rains and the hardscrabble surface didn'...
March 26,2012
The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) interviewed Marwa El-Daly, founder of the Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF), about the circumstances surrounding the Foundation...
March 26,2012
Kuwait – September, 2003
Emergencies attract diverse and often unwieldy groups of respondents. They are drawn to the flame for money, high-excitement, fame, and sometimes self-definition....