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Leaving Gaza
By: David Holdridge Stripped of the usual polemics and accompanying rhetoric, here, in the wake of Operation Pillar of Defense, an American humanitarian worker tries to give a citizen's perspective...
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Right Relations in the 21st Century
By: David Holdridge “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for...
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The Hegemon at the Crossroads
By: David Holdridge As the US presidential election looms, David Holdridge argues that Washington must make some fundamental changes if it is to be relevant to the new global dynamic, particularly in...
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Central Asia: Trending to 2025
By: Will Lynch Even as Asia has been booming, the Arab world awakened and Africa now rising, Russia's "near abroad" is now on the ropes. The expectations following Independence have been dashed. Here...
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Beirut: "An Army Charging Upon the Land"
By: David Holdridge As the Syrian Civil War disrupts Lebanon's perpetually precarious military and political balance, we are urged to listen carefully to the rumours and prophecies of a Lebanese...
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Realpolitik: From the Palace to the Street
By: David Holdridge The enduring languor of the American economy, the disillusionment with nation building, and the increasingly participative nature of governance in the Arab world are challenging...
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Fear and Faith in Paradise: Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle...
From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 13
By: David Holdridge Leaving Iraq – February, 2006 I had wanted to stay past the end of 2005 when the permanent government would be elected. We all knew that the Sunnite insurgents and Al Qaeda...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 12
By: David Holdridge The Avant Garde: How we left Iraq... It was the summer of 2005 and for the time being a group of us humanitarian workers had found an acceptable security situation in Khanaqin, a...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 11
By: David Holdridge From Hanoi to Baghdad. The Avant Garde of Western Civ. Later on, that year, there were a growing number of Op-eds and other such analyses that were comparing Iraq to Vietnam and...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 10
By: David Holdridge An Increasingly Lonely Pursuit – March 2005 As Spring approached I had left my assignment in Iraq, briefly, to attend an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) meeting in Amman,...
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New Book Reveals Gross Mismanagement of US Funding in Afghanistan
By: Bridging the Divide Here is a stirring account of how America's intent to win hearts and minds through official largesse backfires - terribly. no read more
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 9
By: David Holdridge Green Zone: February, 2005 Co-incidentally there was a meeting of the minds (mine and the donors) that this was an appropriate and historic time for me to go to the Green Zone to...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 8
By: David Holdridge The Election By January of 2005, the whole world was watching the great presumption of George W. Stumbling though the process had been - at times like a drunken sailor - through...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 7
By: David Holdridge R and R - December 2004: San Sebastian, Spain The road back, I suspected, would be tough. I had told my wife that I only had about one more of these assignments in me - maybe two....
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 6
By: David Holdridge Relocation – April, 2004 There are only a few months when the weather is pleasant in South Central - when one's brain is not starting to boil from the heat or when one is not...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 5
By: David Holdridge South Central, Iraq: January 2004 January in Kut was dismal. There was no infrastructure for draining the black water which covers the town during the rains and the hardscrabble...
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“Nothing really made it easy except that things got complicated”: the story...
By: Jenny Hodgson (Global Fund for Community Foundations) The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) interviewed Marwa El-Daly, founder of the Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF),...
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Controlling the Narrative: Part 4
By: David Holdridge Kuwait – September, 2003 no read more
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