Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. He has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the author of Muqtada, about war and rebellion in Iraq; The Occupation (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007); The Broken Boy, a memoir; and with Andrew Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.
...a heretical literary journal in the 1950s. Henry?s Demons: Living With Schizophrenia, a Father and Son?s Story by Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn. (Scribner) In this memoir Patrick Cockburn, a war reporter for The Independent of London, and his son...
...family, or your country, or your job, or even your sense of self. By Anthony Shadid, Reviewed by Patrick Cockburn Anthony Shadid rebuilt his ancestors’ house in Lebanon. In 2006, Shadid visited the abandoned house of his great-grandfather in...
...drove Lebanese like Shadids ancestors to emigrate to America, where they frequently became peddlers or opened grocery stores. Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for The Independent of London. His latest book, written with Henry Cockburn, is...
...seven times by a collection of poetry and once by a childrens book. In the biography section, journalist Patrick Cockburn and his son Henry co-authored an account of the latters struggles with paranoid schizophrenia in Henrys Demons: Living with...
...times by a collection of poetry and once by a children's book. In the biography section, journalist Patrick Cockburn and his son Henry co-authored an account of the latter's struggles with paranoid schizophrenia in "Henry's Demons: Living with...
...times by a collection of poetry and once by a children’s book. In the biography section, journalist Patrick Cockburn and his son Henry co-authored an account of the latter’s struggles with paranoid schizophrenia in “Henry’s Demons: Living with...
...In and Around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn (Cape); Henrys Demons: Living With Schizophrenia by journalist Patrick Cockburn and his son Henry (Simon & Schuster); and Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by...
...blocks, or lining up at dozens of soup kitchens." Covering a protest by mental-health workers in Athens, Patrick Cockburn of The Independent reported: "The protesters point out that the suicide rate in Greece has risen 40% because of the crisis. Health...
...Strip, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, the vast majority of which were civilians, veteran Irish journalist Patrick Cockburn wrote in The Independent that Israeli society reminded him "more than ever of the unionists in Northern Ireland in the...
...Strip, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, the vast majority of which were civilians, veteran Irish journalist Patrick Cockburn wrote in The Independent that Israeli society reminded him "more than ever of the unionists in Northern Ireland in the...
...The US invaded Iraq in 2003 in a show of strength after 9/11 to prove it was the world’s sole superpower. But the war demonstrated that the US did not have the political and military might to determine the future of Iraq. The country that US troops...
...1946, the victorious right was wholly dominant up to the fall of the colonels in 1974," noted Patrick Cockburn author of Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival and the Struggle for Iraq. "Greece never enjoyed the sort of post-war social compromise...
...1946, the victorious right was wholly dominant up to the fall of the colonels in 1974," noted Patrick Cockburn author of Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival and the Struggle for Iraq. "Greece never enjoyed the sort of post-war social compromise...
...with her as she investigated the stories she wanted to cover and she introduced me to Irish journalist Patrick Cockburn who was staying at the Radisson Hotel where conditions were only marginally better than Marie and I were experiencing. Sitting...