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“Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East”

David "Quil" Lawrence | June 01, 2008

Quil Lawrence is a Middle East Correspondent for BBC/PRI’s “The World” and a former IRP Fellow. He’s reported extensively from Iraq, traveling to every ...
Iraqi Kurds Enjoy a De Facto State

David "Quil" Lawrence | June 30, 2000

DAL DA GHAN, Iraq, Spring 2000-- On the map it still says Iraq, but that's where the similarity ends. The school children in the tiny village of Dal da Ghan stand up ...
More Freedom for the Kurds

David "Quil" Lawrence | June 01, 2000

IRAQ, Spring 2000 -- Quil Lawrence reports on the Kurds living in northern Iraq. Because of UN air patrols, the Kurds are relatively independent of Iraqi control, and have ...
MIDEAST WATER CRISIS: Running near empty

Andrew Metz | June 01, 2000

JABALIYA, Gaza Strip, Spring 2000 -- A big blue jug in each hand, Mohammad Ibrahim steps over broken bottles, leaps a soggy cardboard box, sloshes straight through a ...
Embargo Effect on Iraq

David "Quil" Lawrence | June 01, 2000

IRAQ, Spring 2000 -- Quil Lawrence reports on the devastating effect of the ten-year embargo against Iraq. Even with the recent program allowing Iraq to trade oil for food and ...