“You don’t have to learn any lessons you don’t want to.”
Iraq
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A Year in Reading: Inward Journeys
Navigating a world in flux demands some understanding of who you really are, and some of my favorite pieces from this year speak to that need.
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The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game
“Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?”
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Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
A livelihood is not a life—yet many risk the latter in order to create the former.
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A Few Good Men
“Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project.”
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Hostage Business
“How a Virginia businesswoman escaped her kidnappers in Iraq—and later returned to finish her work.”
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Breathe In
“It wasn’t until after I returned from Iraq that I found out what all was tossed into those burn pits at The Dump.”
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The Reluctant Bomb Technicians of Sinjar
“The three of them had become part of a team that would clear the land they grew up on of the death ISIS had strewn there, beginning to reclaim it for Iraq’s displaced Yazidis to one day return home.”
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What I Wish I’d Known About Sexual Assault in the Military
Sandra Sidi recalls the rampant sexual assault and harassment she and other female colleagues experienced when she worked as a civilian public affairs analyst for the military in Iraq in 2007.