Archive: July 2006
Heating Up
Outlook this week detailed daily life in both Beirut and Haifa as attacks in the Middle East continued. Apart from the dark humor in the diaries, the section also featured Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Hezbollah scholar in Beirut, trying to answer...
By Rachel Dry | July 24, 2006; 4:20 PM ET | Comments (2)
Hidden History
A 19th century history lesson on slavery found in the basement of a Georgetown home “could not have come at a better time,” according to one reader of Andrew Stephen’s Outlook piece this week. The story, tracing the largely forgotten...
By Rachel Dry | July 18, 2006; 9:29 AM ET | Comments (1)
What Counts in Iraq
In Outlook this week, Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, wrote on civilian casualties in Iraq, touching on not just the high profile Haditha and Mahmudiyah, but also of the more common accidental...
By Rachel Dry | July 10, 2006; 4:08 PM ET | Comments (9)