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Paul Iddon

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Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist based in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan who writes about Middle East affairs

Paul Iddon's articles

Book Review | MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

By Paul Iddon
 Ben Hubbard’s new book is a biography of Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, popularly referred... Read more > April 2020

Book Review | The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts

By Paul Iddon
 Following the infamous, and seemingly unstoppable, rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) and its bloody takeover of large... Read more > February 2020

Book Review | The Great Betrayal: How America abandoned the Kurds and lost the Middle East

By Paul Iddon
 The thesis of David E. Philips’ book The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The... Read more > June 2019

Book Review | Temperature Rising: Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East

By Paul Iddon
 Nader Uskowi opens his first book, a concise but definitive account of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC)... Read more > April 2019

Book Review | Sinjar: 14 Days that Saved the Yazidis from Islamic State

By Paul Iddon
 Download a PDF version here. Susan Shand’s book is a moving account of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) genocide... Read more > January 2019

Book Review | Being Kurdish in a Hostile World

By Paul Iddon
 Ayub Nuri was born in the wrong place, or so he likes to quip. He comes from Halabja... Read more > June 2018

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Voice of the Week

Our Voice of the Fortnight is a Middle East Institute (MEI) discussion with James Zogby about the latest polling from his consultancy group, Zogby Research Services, that assess attitudes from several Arab countries and Israel on a number of topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Arab Peace Initiative, and the desirability of normalisation before a final resolution of the conflict.

Image of the Week

Our Image of the Fortnight is an Israeli fireman extinguishing a large fire in Bat Hefer that resulted in resident being evacuated from their homes, 9 October 2020. Photo by Gili Yaari. Flash90.

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