Neil Shea
writer
Ramadi Nights ... is a riveting read.
Blog of the Nation
from NPR's Talk of the Nation
The American Scholar is featuring a series of my stories from Afghanistan. These short, impressionistic pieces attempt to fill in some blank spaces in our view of the war, describing what happens behind and between the lines.
Find “Snapshots of a Fading War” here.
Selected Work
A Gathering Menace
The Afghanistan effect, or: Making Taliban
Ramadi Nights
Stumbling Towards Victory in Iraq
The Revolution is
Castro's Cuba at 50
Omo River
Africa's Last Frontier
Out Yonder
Sick and Unseen in America
Dispatches
“God, country. Then family.”
The View from an Iraqi Classroom :: May 2013
Al Taqaddum
Behind the Story: Looking back at Iraq
Snapshots of a Fading War
A new dispatch from Afghanistan every Monday
Tallyban
Dispatches from Afghanistan :: January 2010
Absolute Power
Dispatches from Ethiopia :: March 2009