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    Fathom > Articles by: Paul Iddon

    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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