PCR Event | Muqtada

Last Friday we welcomed Patrick Cockburn, author of Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq. Dexter Filkins, from The New Republic, has a splendid and thorough review of the book here. We were also joined by Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, Senior Correspondent for Middle East Broadcasting, who interviewed Cockburn about the book and his impressions of al-Sadr. Audio is available here.

I got the book and have

I got the book and have started reading it. Pretty good and even exciting so far.