'Doom 34' by Trey Morris is a memoir of flying a bombing mission during the onset of Desert Storm and the planes the men flew.
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Book Review: ‘I Remember Fallujah’ by Feurat Alani
'I Remember Fallujah' by Feurat Alani is a moving portrait of a family's struggle with living in exile and memories of their homeland.
Read More »Film Review: ‘Free Burma Rangers’ Not Standard Christian Fare
The film documents the efforts of former Special Forces soldier David Eubank and his family to help people in war zones.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Baghdad Clock’ by Shahad Al Rawi
Shahad Al Rawi’s The Baghdad Clock, published by One World Publications, allows us to see the world through the wondering eyes of a child. We watch as her world, at first so big and filled with magic, gradually shrinks as she grows. However, no matter her age and size, our …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Noura’ by Heather Raffo at Playwrights Horizons
A seemingly settled Iraqi immigrant family meets a young refugee and old wounds open in this fine new drama.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Bill Cain’s ‘9 Circles’
The powerful antiwar drama makes its Texas premiere at the San Antonio's Classic Theatre.
Read More »Iraq Strategy Should Also Fight Hunger
While a strategy for peace in Iraq is still being formed, we already know one ingredient. Food will help write the peace in Iraq.
Read More »Flash Fiction: Memorial Days of Future Past
Mom stands and looks at me with watery blue eyes. She feared losing Dad in Vietnam and instead lost him in a different war against cancer. No matter what the battle, the losses are the hardest thing to fathom or accept.
Read More »Chris Kyle and ‘American Sniper’ – The Book, the Movie, and the Philosophy of War
The impression Chris Kyle gives in his book, of being a gun-obsessed, resilient, judgmental war professional, is quite different from his filmic counterpart.
Read More »Syrian Refugee Children Lose School Food Program
Syrian children attending school in refugee camps in Iraq will be without a feeding program when classes start next week.
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