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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 Matthias Kuentzel and Russell Berman talking about the JCPOA talks in Vienna from the perspective of Germany. Kuentzel studies this relationship and sheds light on several aspects including nuclear politics, anti-Americanism in Europe, and the antisemitism of the Iranian regime.

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Our Image of the Fortnight is new immigrants to the British Mandate of Palestine lining up for their first meal at the reception camp in Atlit, 4 November 1941. Photo by Kluger Zoltan, GPO Israel.

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