Juan Cole

Books by Juan Cole

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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
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Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.
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I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
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