Ashura Bombings

03/03/2004

Saddam after Saddam

12/17/2003

Sick and Sickened

12/04/2003

Who's Bombing

11/05/2003

Bad Traffic, Big Houses, Parting Hellos

10/15/2003

A dangerous city meets everyday minutia

The New School Year

10/08/2003

A visit to a Kindergarten, a University.

Looking for a House

09/30/2003

I look at a lot of houses and enter a lot of homes.

First Days Back

09/26/2003

I spend a few hot days being grateful for, and disliking, new intense security measures.

Back to Baghdad

09/21/2003

After a few months in the States, I'm in Amman preparing to return to Baghdad.

Iraqi Women

06/12/2003

More Food, Cooking Lessons, and Conversations with Women

The Salam Palace

06/02/2003

A trip to one of Saddam's bombed and looted palaces, plus a brief visit with Uday's lions

Cooking and Guns

05/30/2003

I get a good long cooking lesson and try to figure out whether the Americans are blowing it here

The Library Is Gone, Mr. Rumsfeld

05/24/2003

I find out about the fate of the Iraqi National Library, and more.

A Dinner Party

05/21/2003

Getting to know journalists, Iraqis, and my kitchen.

Lunch at ORHA, Lunch With a Sheik

05/20/2003

I have two lunches in one day that make me worry about the future of Iraq (and, also, kinda sick).

Mass graves at Mahawil

05/18/2003

I visit the mass graves at Mahawil, later meet a young man who impossibly survived the massacre.

May 16

05/16/2003

in Baghbad

Amman

05/14/2003

Preparations & the Dead Sea

May 11, 2003

05/11/2003

trip to Amman