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