Essays and Op-Eds
"Iraq: all together against the occupation,". Le Monde Diplomatique. May, 2004.
"The US has lost the Battle of the Photographs." TomDispatch.com, The Nation Institute, 2 May 2004. Also The San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2004.
"Turning into Israel?". Salon, April 16, 2004.
"Welcome to the Quagmire." Salon, March 19, 2004.
"How the US is Sowing Gridlock in Iraq.". San Jose Mercury News, March 14, 2004.
"The Three State Solution?. The Nation. March 11. 2004.
"Conquering the Divide.". The Guardian. March 9, 2004.
“The Iraqi Shiites: On the history of America’s would-be allies” The Boston Review, Fall, 2003.
“Shiite divisions give the US breathing room,” Daily Star, 9 August 2003.
“Will Sunnis fight Shiites in Iraq?” Daily Star, 22 July 2003.
“Aiding Iran's Students,” The Nation, July 14, 2003.
Taking Aim at Iran (The Nation, June 23, 2003)
Why was Bush chasing Phantoms in Iran? (Daily Star 06-13-03)
Shiite radicalism and the future of Iraq (Daily Star 05-06-03)
Questions of Peace and Genocide (Tikkun, May/June ’03)
Iraq Scholars Will Long Remember Our Indifference to their Museum – 4-16-03
Shiite Religious Parties Fill Vacuum in Southern Iraq (MERO 4-22-03)
Why You Should Pray that We Don't Bomb the Sites Sacred to Shiites (HNN 3-17-03)
Did Saddam Gas the Kurds? (HNN 2-04-03)
Why Are Arch Conservatives Ganging Up on the Middle East Studies Association? (HNN 1-20-03)
The Difficulty of Writing Iraqi History in the U.S. (HNN 1-20-03)
The Risks of Peace and The Costs of War, The Journal of the International Institute (University of Michigan) Winter 2003, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 3
The Historian Who Has Been Sentenced to Death [Hashem Aghajari] - HNN 11-18-02
Why Those Election Results in Pakistan Are Frightening (HNN 10-21-02)
Are Professors too Liberal? (HNN 10-14-02)
Muhammad Was a Terrorist? (HNN 10-07-02)
The Misuses of Anti-Semitism (HNN 9-30-02)
Review of Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong (Global Dialogue)
How Israel's Occupation Affects Palestinian Children (HNN 9-23-02)
Would the United States Really Like a Democratic Iraq? (It Should) HNN 9-16-02)
Successes and Failures of the War on Terror (Symposium on "Globalization and Terrorism" International Institute, University of Michigan, September 11, 2002)
Should College Kids Be Required to Read About the Koran? (HNN 7-29-02)
Why We Should Not Boycott Israeli Academics Chronicle of Higher Education Tuesday, July 16, 2002
It's Time for Sharon to Go (HNN 7-08-02)
Postcolonial Wars of the Post-Soviet Era: Why Huntington is Wrong (HNN 6-24-02)
The Downside to the Bush Doctrine (On View in South Asia Now) (HNN 6-03-02)
