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Postwar reconstruction
Apr 22, 2012 — Saima Wahab left Afghanistan for the United States as a young girl, but she returned to her home country as a Pashto translator for the U.S. military. In her memoir In My Father's Country, Wahab describes the difficulty of straddling two nations at war.
Sep 26, 2011 — In 2009, Peter Van Buren joined a team working to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and economy. For the next year, he encountered comically misguided projects, greedy contractors and oblivious bureaucrats. In his new book, We Meant Well, he recounts the ground-level waste and corruption he saw.
Nov 13, 2006 — The Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel brainstorming options and solutions for the U.S.-led occupation, is expected to deliver its recommendations on options to President Bush later this year.
Oct 24, 2006 — A slew of recently released books examine U.S. policy and military strategy behind the Iraq war. George Packer, author of 2005's highly acclaimed The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, reviews some of the latest titles.
Sep 23, 2006 — Rajiv Chandrasekaran covered Iraq for The Washington Post. His new book describes the Americans who went there with idealistic, often uninformed attitudes towards rebuilding a nation. The book is called Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone.
Sep 19, 2006 — Journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the former Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post. His new book about the Green Zone in Baghdad during the first year of the U.S. occupation is Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Jan 11, 2006 — In October 2003, Mark Etherington became governor of the Shiite-majority Wasit Province in Iraq. Six months later, Etherington, isolated from the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, was forced to flee his headquarters in al-Kut, the province's capital. His new book is Revolt on the Tigris.
Jan 10, 2006 — Two big surprises awaited Paul Bremer when he arrived in Iraq: that the country's chaos made it ripe for insurgency; and that the U.S. government would withhold additional troops. Bremer became the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in May of 2003.
Dec 7, 2005 — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein failed to show up in an Iraqi court Wednesday after declaring the day before that his trial on charges of orchestrating the killings of 140 Shiite villagers in 1982 was unjust. The trial is now in recess until December 21. Madeleine Brand discusses the latest developments with New York University law professor Noah Feldman, author of What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Feldman says Saddam is making a mockery of the court and effectively derailing the trial.
