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Helena Cobban

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Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban has written about (and often from) the Middle East since 1975. She writes a column on global affairs for the Christian Science Monitor, essays for Boston Review, and has published six books on international issues.

Her personal blog is Just World News. She is a Friend in Washington for the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and thinks she may be the only Quaker who's also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Articles

News and Features

Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran (Religion, Regions and Countries, Society)

Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.

Helena Cobban
The Palestinian Paradox (Regions and Countries)

When I interviewed Salam Fayyad in Ramallah at the end of February, he
was a worried man--and with reason.

Helena Cobban
After Gaza: Jerusalem? (Regions and Countries)

Reclaiming Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem looks to be new frontier for Israeli expansionism.

Helena Cobban
Facing Hamas and Hezbollah (Foreign Policy, Presidential Election 2008, Regions and Countries, Politics)

US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.

Helena Cobban

Blogs

Bushites Edge into Talks with Tehran
The US and Iranian ambassadors in Baghdad met for four hours Monday, hosted by Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki in his office in the Baghdad Green...
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