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Patrick Cockburn
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Patrick Cockburn is currently Middle East correspondent for the Independent and worked previously for the Financial Times. He has written four books on Iraq’s recent history—The Rise of Islamic State, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq, The Occupation, and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn)—as well as a memoir, The Broken Boy and, with his son, a book on schizophrenia, Henry’s Demons, which was shortlisted for a Costa Award. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009, the Foreign Commentator of the Year in 2013, and the Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in 2014.
THE BROKEN BOY
The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn’s own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world.The parallels between what happened 65 years ago and today’s crisis are both striking and salutary. More |
WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
The Fall of ISIS, the Betrayal of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
In this successor to his bestselling The Rise of Islamic State, which was translated into 16 languages, and the widely-acclaimed The Age of Jihad, prize-winning foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn provides a clear-sighted and closely-observed account of the Middle East wars conducted by Donald Trump during the first term of his presidency. More |
CHAOS AND CALIPHATE
Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East
Chaos and Caliphate draws together a selection of Cockburn’s writings from the frontlines of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, interspersed with analyses and contemporary reflection. More |
THE JIHADIS RETURN
ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising
Renowned Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn contends that by exploiting the missteps of the West’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in Syria and the Arab Spring, al Qa’ida is now expanding dramatically. More |
In the News
- Roundup: PATRICK COCKBURN on the Chilcot inquiry (7/6/2016)
- “Chilcot report: Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and the words of mass destruction that continue to deceive” PATRICK COCKBURN for The Independent (7/5/2016)
- “Laura Flanders: The End of Capitalism? Paul Mason and Patrick Cockburn” PATRICK COCKBURN on The Laura Flanders Show (6/28/2016)
- “Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, An Endless Cycle of Indecisive Wars” PATRICK COCKBURN in Tom Dispatch (6/28/2016)
- “From Chaos and Caliphate” PATRICK COCKBURN excerpted in International Policy Digest (6/24/2016)
