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Iraq’s Winning Vote

IRAQ’S FIRST postwar election four years ago was mostly a procedural victory: Iraqis sent a message to the world by turning out en masse despite

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Omar Khayam Junior!!!?

When Edward FitzGerald translated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, he gave it a fatalistic spin but softened Khayam’s nihilism. Living in an age seduced by orientalism,

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