Results for “Iraq

The New Jerusalem Is Crumbling

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 21, 2019

From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’.

A Monstrous Betrayal

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 10, 2019

Caroline Fourest’s ‘Sisters in Arms’ arrives just in time for the Ottoman Anschluss against Syrian Kurdistan.

The Kurds, Trump, and the Decline of American Power

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 31, 2017

Why the United States’ inexplicable abandonment of the Kurdish people is ‘the geopolitical equivalent of a stock-market crash’.

Who Betrayed the Kurdish People?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 22, 2017

Two years after the Kurds fought against the Islamic State, America turned its back as they sought independence.

The United States Serves Up Kurdistan to Iran on a Silver Platter

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 18, 2017

‘We should not have abandoned Kurdistan, the only real pole of stability in the region’.

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani Speaks

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 29, 2017

The day after his successful independence referendum, the commander of the Peshmerga talks with Bernard-Henri Lévy about Kurdistan’s neighbors Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, French President Macron, and the future of his people.

American Jews Should Care About and Support the Independence of Kurdistan

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 20, 2017

Iraqi Kurdistan is one of the very rare areas of the Middle East where Jews and Judaism are viewed positively.

The Day a Jewish General Invented a Muslim Country

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, August 07, 2017

How J.F.R. Jacob saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the land that became Bangladesh.

Mosul Is Liberated – But Not Yet Free

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2017

Who will rebuild the destroyed Iraqi city? Who will shepherd the refugees to safety? Who will reward the Kurds with the regionally stabilizing state they deserve?

‘Slava Ukraini’ Review: Tour of a War-Torn Nation

Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times, May 04, 2023

The French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy travels to different parts of Ukraine in this dispatch-documentary, shot in the second half of 2022.