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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

November 2, 2011

Immediately, “infamy” became American code for “Pearl Harbor,” as well as code for Japanese treachery and deceitfulness—a stab in the…
Press Release

PEN Praises Senate Bill on Iraqi Refugees

June 19, 2007

PEN American Center today applauded the introduction of legislation to accelerate and expand programs to resettle threatened Iraqi translators, journalists,…
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Resolution on Iraqi Refugee Crisis

July 27, 2007

Noting with profound concern the grave and growing refugee crisis precipitated by the US-led intervention in Iraq and exacerbated by…
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Deborah Amos: Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East

April 12, 2010

It was easy to believe, as we watched U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama stride across the stage at Cairo University…
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A History of Trauma

April 3, 2007

KHALED MATTAWA: What’s ringing in my ear now is the adverb “originally,” and I want to discuss with Hanan and…
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Assassination of Novelist Alaa Mashzoub is a Blow to Creative Expression in Iraq

February 4, 2019

“It is critical that those who are willing to raise their voices and express dissident viewpoints in Iraq have the…
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Made in the USA

Charles Huckelbury

August 1, 2005

The pictures that came out of Iraq told a brutal story. No, not the ones to which the public has…
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Ahmed Ali: Baghdad, Damascus, Atlanta

August 27, 2008

I was eighteen years old, in the final stage of high school. This meant I had to join the army,…
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In Congress, PEN Presses for Action on Iraqi Refugees

March 29, 2007

In testimony presented to Congress this week, journalist and PEN Trustee George Packer urged the U.S. government to clarify and…

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