Ayad Rahim is an Iraqi-American journalist. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, including a series of articles on the Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents with co-author Laurie Mylroie. In addition, he hosts a radio show on station WJCU in Cleveland. His show features scholars and guests from the Middle East and discusses the war, terrorism and Iraq. The radio station is run by John Carroll University. Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents refers to some 55,000 boxes of documents, audiotapes and videotapes produced by the government of Saddam Hussein and seized after the 2003 invasion of Iraq that the U.S. government is releasing on the internet. ... Laurie Mylroie is a U.S. specialist on Iraq. ... John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area in the United States. ...

Early life

Rahim was born in London on February 16, 1962. He lived in Baghdad with is family from 1965-1971. His father was a doctor who immigrated to the United States in 1970. In 1971, his family joined his father in Cleveland, Ohio. In college, Rahim studied history, political science and journalism. February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...

Career

In 1983-84, Rahim worked on Gary Hart's presidential campaign. From 1989-1991, Rahim worked for 18 months as a journalist in Palestine. While many Palestinians supported Saddam Hussein, Rahim did not. When Saddam invaded Kuwait, Rahim hoped only that Palestinians would benefit from the invasion and that as many American soldiers would die as possible. Rahim describes this as a very confusing time for him. Gary Hart Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Hartpence on November 28, 1936) is a politician and lawyer from the state of Colorado. ... Palestine (Hebrew: , Palestina; Arabic: ‎ Filastīn or Falastīn) is one of several names for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River with various adjoining lands. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, (Arabic: ), (born April 28, 1937 ), was the President of Iraq from 1979 until the United States-led invasion of Iraq reached Baghdad on April 9, 2003. ...

While in Jerusalem in October, 1990, Rahim met Kanan Makiya, the author of Republic of Fear, an important book on Baathist Iraq, published under a pseudonym in 1989. Rahim and Makiya would later work together. Rahim returned home to Cleveland in January, 1991, at the start of U.S. hostilities to remove Iraq from Kuwait. Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi-American academic. ... Baath Party of Iraq Baath son of Magog of Milesian tradition This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In March, 1991, uprisings in Iraq against Saddam changed the political landscape. Iraqis around the world became less afraid to speak out against Saddam. In June, 1991, Rahim began working with Kanan Makiya. Rahim and Makiya later worked in association with the Iraq Research and Documentation Project, when it was launched, at Harvard in 1993. That project later grew into the Iraq Memory Foundation, a Baghdad-based project that seeks to develop a learning center similar to the Holocaust museum.

Blogging in Baghdad

From April - July 2004, Rahim studied events in Iraq and wrote a daily blog from the Baghdad office of the Iraq Foundation[1] Rahim also visited his family and wrote about their observations and outlook.[2]

Interviews

Rahim has interviewed a number of interesting guests on his radio program about the War on Terror, the Arab world, Islam, terrorism and Iraq.[3] Guests have included:

• Dr. Fouad Ajami – Lebanese American scholar and writer discussed the historical, political, cultural and psychological background of the Arab world.

• Christopher Hitchens – discussed the left, today’s “anti-war” camps, anti-Semitism and other topics.

• Adeed Dawisha – native of Iraq and professor of political science at Miami of Ohio University discussed the identify of Iraq, its status and chances for survival. He also discussed Iraq's democratic experience under the monarchy, the recent Iraqi elections and the forming of the new government.

• Michael Scharf – professor of law at Case Western Reserve University Law School who formerly worked for the UN and trained members of the Iraqi Special Court discussed Saddam’s trial, the fairness and independence of the tribunal and misreporting on the tribunal.

• Dr. Laurie Mylroie – discussed the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

• George Will – discussed the doctrine of preemption.

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References

• Live from Baghdad
• Description of Ayad Rahim's Interviews
• NY Times Blog