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Iraq

Eyes on Iraq

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ABOUT 

  • ABOUT Juan Cole

    Historian Juan Cole teaches at the University of Michigan and earned his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Engaging the Muslim World (2009), Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007), and The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Contemporary Iraq (2006). Profile

  • ABOUT Susie Linfield

    Director of New York University Journalism Institute’s Cultural Reporting & Criticism Program, Susie Linfield writes about culture and politics for publications including ArtNews, The Boston Review, Dissent, Newsday, The Nation, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. She has also served as the arts editor of The Washington Post, the deputy editor of The Village Voice, and the editor-in-chief of American Film. Profile

  • ABOUT George Packer

    A staff writer at The New Yorker, George Packer often writes on the Iraq War for that magazine. His books include Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade (2009), The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (2005), Blood of the Liberals (2000), and The Village of Waiting (1988). He has served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa and was named a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow. Packer has written for The New York Times Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones, and Harper’s, among others. Profile

  • ABOUT Anthony Shadid

    Foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid writes from Baghdad for The New York Times. Prior to that, he served as the Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 for his coverage of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. Shadid’s books include Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War (2005) and Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (2000). Profile

  • ABOUT Rory Stewart

    Harvard University’s Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Rory Stewart was appointed the Coalition Provisional Authority deputy governor of two provinces in Southern Iraq in 2003, an experience he describes in The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq. He is also the author of The Places in Between. Profile
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So it’s a society in which they don’t have to put up with us being there if they don’t want us there. They’re mobilized, they’re sophisticated, and they’re using various ways of getting rid of us.       

In this roundtable conversation in 2006, foreign policy experts Juan Cole, George Packer, Anthony Shadid, and Rory Stewart agree that the United States should leave Iraq as the former has neither improved its relations with the latter nor made the world sufficiently safer by its occupation. But they differ as to how and when we should leave. Could the U.S. cause even greater harm by leaving? Or is tomorrow the ideal time? How do our actions in Iraq affect American and Iraqi relations with other nations, both in the Middle East and beyond? How do morals come into play? Do we have any precedents to follow? Does any of this relate to terrorism? Journalist Susie Linfield moderates.

Generously sponsored in part by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Presented in partnership with the DePaul Humanities Center and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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Iraq, journalism, foreign policy, military, warfare, politics

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