By Harvey Morris The destruction of ancient artifacts by militants of the Islamic State in areas under their control in northern Iraq goes beyond the ancient tradition of sectarian iconoclasm. In the religious turmoil of the Byzantine Empire, zealots destroyed images...
By Harvey Morris It was the spring of 1991. A few weeks earlier America and its allies had ousted Saddam Hussein’s invading forces from Kuwait, providing the signal for rebellions among his oppressed Kurdish and Shia communities in Iraq. In the north, the Kurds had...
Unsettling as it was to be compared with Hitler’s spin doctor, it was a reminder of the intense scrutiny to which reporting on Israel-Palestine is subjected. That headline, above mug shots of the two of us, kicked off an article in 2010 on a website dedicated to...