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Samir al-Khalil

Samir al-Khalil is the author of the Republic of Fear: Saddam's Iraq (Pantheon) and The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq (University of California Press).

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Kuwaiti Rights Are the Issue

Are the United States and the Arab world “on the edge of war,” as the editors of Middle East Report put it in their September-October 1990 editorial? I think not. Rather, Iraq, a criminal state, has extended the violence that rules inside its own borders into Kuwait. This act by itself and before th

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