| Title | Publication | Date |
| Getting Religion Wrong | Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion | October 2008 |
| Return of the Purple Fingers | Washington Post | June 9, 2008 |
| Culture and Conflict in the Middle East | MEF Wire | January 29, 2008 |
| The Proposed U.S. Security Commitment to Iraq | House Foreign Affairs Committee | January 23, 2008 |
| Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally? | AEI Middle Eastern Outlook | January 2008 |
| The Extension of the United Nations Mandate for Iraq | House Foreign Affairs Committee | December 19, 2007 |
| The U.S. Counter-propaganda Failure in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2007 |
| U.S. Policy Options in the Iraq Crisis | U.S. House of Representatives | July 17, 2007 |
| Is Iraq in a Civil War? | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Iraqi Kurdistan's Downward Spiral | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Culture in Post-Saddam Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Enabling Kurdish Illusions | Weekly Standard | March 19, 2007 |
| The Barzani Chameleon | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2007 |
| Iraq in Books | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2007 |
| Who Owns Kirkuk? The Turkoman Case | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| Who Owns Kirkuk? The Kurdish Case | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| What went wrong: A sober look at Iraq | National Review Online | December 4, 2006 |
| Right war, botched occupation | USA Today | November 27, 2006 |
| Nurture Iraqi democracy, from the ground up | Los Angeles Times | November 16, 2006 |
| Why withdrawal from Iraq is the worst option | Financial Times | October 26, 2006 |
| Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards | Weekly Standard | October 20, 2006 |
| Misguided reconciliation with Baathists | Philadelphia Inquirer | October 19, 2006 |
| Last Chance for Iraq? | National Review | September 11, 2006 |
| How Iraqi Oil Smuggling Greases Violence | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2006 |
| Dissident Watch: Kamal Sayid Qadir | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Are We Playing for Keeps? | Wall Street Journal | February 27, 2006 |
| Iraqi Beacon | Wall Street Journal | December 14, 2005 |
| How to Deal with Kidnappings in Iraq | Rivista di Intelligence | December 2005 |
| Iraq's Comeback Kid | National Review | November 29, 2005 |
| Iraq, Unplugged | National Review Online | November 1, 2005 |
| With Freedom Comes Politics | Wall Street Journal | October 18, 2005 |
| Iraq and the Democratization of the Middle East | La Rivoluzione Democratica Contro Il Terrorismo | October 14, 2005 |
| Only threat of force will tame Tehran | The Observer | October 9, 2005 |
| "The Arafat Model" | National Review | September 12, 2005 |
| The Future of Iraq: Democracy, Civil War, or Chaos? | Middle East Review of International Affairs | September 2005 |
| Less Is More in Iraq | Washington Post | August 9, 2005 |
| The Price of Compromise | New York Sun | August 8, 2005 |
| Reconstructing Iraq: Winning the Propaganda War in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2005 |
| Reconstructing Iraq: Bringing Iraq's Economy Back Online | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2005 |
| Let Iraq handle Sunnis | Baltimore Sun | May 10, 2005 |
| The Iraq Museum, Reloaded | Tech Central Station | May 10, 2005 |
| Iraq and the Importance of the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Scandal | MEF Wire | May 3, 2005 |
| That Occupation Feeling | National Review Online | April 18, 2005 |
| King Abdullah II: "Iraq is the Battleground - the West against Iran" | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Kanan Makiya: "All Levels of the Iraqi Government Were Complicit." | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Iraq has voted | Wall Street Journal | January 31, 2005 |
| A Fresh Start | National Review Online | January 28, 2005 |
| Bush Marches Into a Second Term, His Agenda Set by Mideast Foes | Forward | January 28, 2005 |
| Democracy on the Wing | Washington Post | January 26, 2005 |
| Listen to the Iraqis | National Review Online | January 7, 2005 |
| Vacancy | National Review Online | December 10, 2004 |
| What's Going Right in Iraq | Los Angeles Times | October 24, 2004 |
| Iraq, a test case for democracy? | MEF Wire | October 12, 2004 |
| Iraq's Electoral System: A Misguided Strategy | Arab Reform Bulletin | September 2004 |
| Understanding Muqtada al-Sadr | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2004 |
| Al-Kut, Iraq: After-Battle Report | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2004 |
| Salem Chalabi: Judging Saddam | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2004 |
| Losing the Shia | National Review Online | August 19, 2004 |
| Out of Iraq, Out of Mind | New Observer | August 10, 2004 |
| CPA, R.I.P. | National Review Online | June 28, 2004 |
| The Wrong Elections For Iraq | Washington Post | June 19, 2004 |
| U.S. Culture Corps | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2004 |
| Ahmad Chalabi: "The Biggest Error Was Occupation" | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2004 |
| Iraq won't be perfect, but victory is still in reach | Australian Financial Review | March 12, 2004 |
| Saddam's Press Lackey and "Peace" Activist in America | FrontPageMagazine.com | March 4, 2004 |
| Museum Madness in Baghdad | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2004 |
| Iraq for the Iraqis: How and When | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2004 |
| Saddam's "Engaging Smile" | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Ansar al-Islam: Back in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Taking Baghdad: A First-hand Account | MEF Wire | November 20, 2003 |
| "Thank you for everything. But do not stay." | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2003 |
| Resistance in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2003 |
| Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power? | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Iraqi Assyrians: Barometer of Pluralism | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Confessions of an Anti-Sanctions Activist | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| NY Times Mobile Headline Lab Found in Iraqi Desert | Middle East Quarterly | June 2003 |
| The Iraq War: How It Was Seen in the Middle East | MEF Wire | April 21, 2003 |
| The Saddam Soliloquy | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2003 |
| Iraqi WMD and the U.N. Plan of Action | MEF Wire | May 10, 2002 |
| Iraq and Syria: The Dilemma of Dynasty | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2002 |
| Jalal Talabani: "No Grounds for a Relationship with Baghdad" | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2002 |
| Syria and Iraq – Repression | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2001 |
| The View from Kuwait | MEF Wire | March 18, 2000 |
| Target Iraq's Republican Guard | Middle East Quarterly | December 1996 |
| If Baghdad Accepts U.N. Terms | Middle East Quarterly | June 1996 |
| From the Belly of the Beast | MEF Wire | May 16, 1996 |
| Rolf Ekéus: Dismantling Saddam's Arsenal | Middle East Quarterly | March 1996 |
| Turmoil in Iraq: Saddam's Dysfunctional Family | Middle East Quarterly | December 1995 |
| Saad al-Bazzaz: An Insider's View of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | December 1995 |
| Turmoil in Iraq: The Regime's #2 Defects | Middle East Quarterly | December 1995 |
| Hot Spot: Turkey, Iraq, and Mosul | Middle East Quarterly | September 1995 |
| An Iraqi General Defects | Middle East Quarterly | June 1995 |
| The Kuwaiti Resistance | Middle East Quarterly | March 1995 |
| The Last Years of Mustafa Barzani | Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
| Policy Brief: The Case for Containing Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
| The View From Baghdad: Tariq `Aziz | Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
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Book Reviews |
| Review of: Things Fall Apart | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2008 |
| Review of: A Quest in the Middle East | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2008 |
| Review of: Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2008 |
| Review of: Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2008 |
| Review of: Cradle of Conflict | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2008 |
| Review of: Iraq: People, History, Politics | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2008 |
| Review of: Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2008 |
| Review of: Blind into Baghdad | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: Memories of State | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: Iraq and Back | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: My Year in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: The Occupation of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2007 |
| Review of: Turkey's Policy towards Northern Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| Review of: On Point | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2006 |
| Review of: Reclaiming a Plundered Past | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2006 |
| Review of: The End of Iraq | New York Sun | July 17, 2006 |
| Review of: The Road to Kerbala | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2006 |
| Review of: Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq | New York Sun | April 12, 2006 |
| Review of: My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope | Armed Forces Journal | March 2006 |
| Review of: Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Review of: Revolt on the Tigris | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Review of: Dancing in the No-Fly Zone | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Review of: The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Review of: Among Warriors in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Review of: The History of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2006 |
| Review of: The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2006 |
| Review of: The Kurds in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2006 |
| Review of: Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2006 |
| Review of: Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2006 |
| Review of: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq | Daily Star (Beirut) | December 20, 2005 |
| Review of: Among the "Others": Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2005 |
| Review of: Hell Is Over, Voices of the Kurds after Saddam | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2005 |
| Review of: In the Red Zone: A Journey into the Soul of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2005 |
| Review of: Dark Victory: America's Second War against Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Review of: Disarming Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Review of: What We Owe Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Review of: Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Review of: Exiting Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2004 |
| Review of: The Monument | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2004 |
| Review of: Iraq's Burdens | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2004 |
| Review of: Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2004 |
| Review of: The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2004 |
| Review of: Against War with Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Review of: Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Review of: Saddam: King of Terror | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Review of: La question irakienne | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Review of: War Plan Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Review of: Ayatollahs, Sufis, and Ideologues | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Review of: Disarming Iraq: Monitoring Power and Resistance | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2003 |
| Review of: Saddam's Bombmaker | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2002 |
| Review of: Sanctioning Saddam | Middle East Quarterly | June 2000 |
| Review of: Tyranny's Ally | Middle East Quarterly | September 1999 |
| Review of: Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All | Middle East Quarterly | September 1999 |
| Review of: Building Towards Crisis | Middle East Quarterly | March 1999 |
| Review of: Common Ground on Iraq-Kuwait Reconciliation | Middle East Quarterly | March 1999 |
| Review of: The Making of the Gulf War | Middle East Quarterly | June 1998 |
| Review of: Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | June 1998 |
| Review of: After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? | Middle East Quarterly | March 1998 |
| Review of: War in the Gulf, 1990-91 | Middle East Quarterly | December 1997 |
| Review of: The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951 | Middle East Quarterly | September 1997 |
| Review of: The Scourging of Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | September 1997 |
| Review of: Arming Iraq | Middle East Quarterly | September 1997 |
| Review of: Circle of Fear: My Life as an Israeli and Iraqi Spy | Middle East Quarterly | March 1996 |
| Review of: Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy | Middle East Quarterly | March 1995 |
| Review of: The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010 | Middle East Quarterly | March 1995 |
| Review of: Expert Witness: A Defense Correspondent's Gulf War, 1990-91 | Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
| Review of: Iraq's Road to War | Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
| Review of: The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf, and the Shi'i International | Middle East Quarterly | June 1994 |
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