Word: settledness
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A few months ago, over dinner, a friend and I were talking about our dreams for the future. “I don’t know what I want,” he told me. “It keeps changing. This week I want to be a doctor...
The fluid narrative tells the story of Mau Mau—a term whose origins are unclear even today—a rebellion incited after the British settled in the traditional homeland of the Kikuyu, which pushed 1.5 million people onto reservations governed by puppet “chiefs.?...
Although the American public remains sharply divided over the Iraq war, the number of soldiers like Anderson who are going to great lengths to get out of their service is actually smaller than it has been in many years. Still, for the first time since the Vietnam War, when Canadian...
The frontrunner for the key position of Prime Minister is currently Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leader of the Shiite Islamist Dawa party. Jaafari is the favorite to win the nomination of the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance list, assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. His key rival...
Kirkuk will be an early test for any new political order: The Kurds are pressing to have it included in their domain on the basis that much of its Arab population was settled there after Saddam had forcibly removed a large segment of the Kurdish population. That demand is fiercely...