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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Free for now—but far from forgiven
The criminal case against Strauss-Kahn appears to be falling apart, but the former IMF chief’s troubles are far from over
Still fighting over Alexander the Great
Or is it Alexander the Macedonian?
Access-to-Information: credit where it is due
Last month I wrote about the results of an access-to-information request to the Immigration and Refugee Board, which yielded some...
Update on Mansoureh Behkish, jailed in Iran
Mansoureh Behkis h, sister of Toronto man Jafar Behkish, was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison on Saturday.
Canada’s next mission
In 2009, the Afghan army lost more soldiers than it recruited, 86 per cent of recruits couldn’t spell their name. That’s all changing.
The government’s case against Cindor Reeves stinks
4,000 pages of documents confirm Ottawa has no dirt on him
Canadian man fears for his sister jailed in Tehran
A Canadian man who has already lost five siblings and a brother-in-law to the Islamic regime in Iran now fears for the life of his...
Amrullah Saleh and the Afghan detainee controversy
Amrullah Saleh was head of Afghanistan’s secret police, the NDS, during the time that Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin alleges...
The cost of a peace deal in Afghanistan
My second article from Afghanistan is about Afghans opposed to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed efforts to reconcile with...