Zaki Chehab
Speaking Tour
Monday 20 February – Friday 24 February 2006
Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
Sponsored by the Victorian Peace Network and others.
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Zaki Chehab’s “Iraq Ablaze” will be published in December, and he can visit Australia in late February. Zaki Chehab, one of the Arab world’s leading journalists. He is political editor of the London based Al Hayat and of the Arabic TV channel LBC. For over 25 years he has covered Middle Eastern conflicts for local and Western media, contributing to the Guardian, and appearing regularly on CNN, Channel 4 and the BBC as a commentator. He is the first journalist to have broadcast interviews with the Iraqi resistance.
The book is a journalistic scoop, the first and only insider account of the resistance, and by a well respected journalist.
Most other titles of a similar nature rely on secondary sources or regurgitated material everything in this book is first hand and new, where nearly all western intelligence agencies have failed, Zaki Chehab is perhaps the only journalist to have gained access to and the confidence of the Iraqi Insurgents. He reports from amongst them – essentially answering “Who exactly are the insurgents?” “What do they actually want?” ‘What really is the American strategy on the ground?’
See also Inside the Resistance, The Iraqi Insurency and the Future of the Middle East.
The US knows it will have to talk to the Iraqi resistance, Guardian, 25 November 2005.
Inside the resistance, Guardian, 13 October 2003.
Author Goes Inside the Resistance in Iraq – includes audio.
Zaki was in the Gaza Strip to witness the elections which brought victory to Hamas, and Zaki will be reporting on this event.
Program
Perth, Monday 20th February
Lunchtime seminar for Postgraduates students at UWA
6:00pm. Free public Lecture at the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA
Adelaide, Tuesday 21st February
7:30pm. Lecture at St Luke's Church, 35 Whitmore Square, Adelaide
Contact Mike on 0439 401090 for details or Jeanie Lucas
Brisbane, Wednesday 22nd February
Public Lecture organised by Just Peace
Avid Bookshop 193 Boundary St West End Q 4101
For details phone 3846 3422.
Sydney, Thursday 23rd February
Public Lecture 6:00pm Bosch Lecture Theatre 4, Western Ave, Sydney University
Hosted by the Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition.
Contact Peter Murphy for details of events.
Melbourne, Friday 24th February
Public Lecture, 7:00pm. Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston Street.
Tickets from NIBS 9662 3744 or Readings
Contact Bill Deller for further information about public events.
Contact Jenny Mc Hendrie or Angela Tiede at Palgrave Macmillan for media interviews etc.
Supporters of the tour include: Victorian Peace Network, Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA, Palgrave Macmillan, the Globalism Institute, RMIT, the Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition, the Avid Bookshop Adelaide, SA NOWAR, WA Peace Network, Just Peace Queensland, NTEU Queensland Division, New International Bookshop, Readings.
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When members of the Iraqi resistance first told their story to the world, they told it to Zaki Chehab, a tenacious and celebrated Middle East journalist. In Inside the Resistance, Chehab is able to show how the resistance fighters really view the elections, the Iranians, Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, and their new American occupiers. Alternating between the perspectives of a local insider and an international observer, he takes us through the critical moments in post-occupation Iraq, such as the bombing of the UN headquarters, the Najaf uprising, and the battle for Fallujah.
Chehab maps out the regional networks of arms, soldiers, and ideology feeding into Iraq. He offers a startling portrait of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, based on interviews with his closest comrades, and provides astonishing behind-the-scenes snapshots of many of the key players in post-Saddam Iraq, including Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, and the mercurial and always controversial Ahmed Chalabi, a political chameleon who, Chehab says, would give "Machiavelli a run for his pasta." This book makes clear that no one is better placed than Chehab to explain the intricacies of the battle for Iraq and convey the reality of life on the front line.
Zaki Chehab is one of the Arab world's leading journalists. He is political editor of the London-based Al Hayat and of the Arabic TV channel LBC. For over twenty-five years he has covered Middle Eastern conflicts as a commentator for the Arab and Western media, including CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera.