PATRICK COCKBURN, The Independent's Chief Middle East Correspondent
CAN (AND SHOULD) IRAQ SURVIVE AS A SINGLE COUNTRY AND WHY IS IT SUCH A BAD PLACE TO INVADE
Date/Time: 3rd March 2009, 17:30
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Based on the speaker's extensive first-hand experience in Iraq, the talk discusses the communal, religious, tribal, and geographical divisions caused, exacerbated or revealed by the 2003 US invasion and subsequent occupation.
Patrick Cockburn is The Independent’s Middle-East correspondent. He is the author of three books on Iraq, most recently The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, published by Verso in 2006. His reporting on the country has won him many accolades including the Martha Gellhorn Award (2005) and the James Cameron Award (2006).
The Lecture commemorates the Tyneside Geographical Society, which was set up in 1887. Previous speakers in the series include Mary Kingsley, Gertrude Bell, Winston Churchill, George Kennan, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Scott, Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton and Francis Younghusband. The lecture forms part of Newcastle University's 'Insights' public lecture series, and is jointly sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG) and the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.