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Dilip Hiro

Dilip Hiro is the author of Sharing the Promised Land: A Tale of Israelis and Palestinians (Interlink), Between Marx and Muhammad: The Changing Face of Central Asia (HarperCollins), Neighbors, Not Friends: Iraq and Iran After the Gulf Wars (Routledge), War Without End: Rise of Islamist Terrorism and the Global Response (also Routledge), Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm (Nation Books), Secrets and Lies: Operation "Iraqi Freedom" and After, The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys Through Theocratic Iran and its Furies and, most recently, Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (all Nation Books).

Currently

2005

  • An Oil-Slicked Playing Field

    November 21, 2005

    The scramble for petroleum by developing countries worldwide is reshaping global geopolitics in favor of oil-rich nations like Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.

  • Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

    August 31, 2005

    By insisting on its right to develop the full range of nuclear technology, Iran has become a Third World hero.

2004

2002

2001

  • Letters

    November 15, 2001 Subscribe

  • Bush's Uzbek Bargain

    October 17, 2001

    After weeks of evasion, reminiscent of two illicit lovers keen to avoid scandal, the US and Uzbekistan announced that they had made a deal.

  • Bush and bin Laden

    September 20, 2001

    In American eyes bin Laden is the epitome of evil. But, sadly and frustratingly, many Afghans and Pakistanis revere him as a veteran of the 1980s anti-Soviet jihad.

2000

1999

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