Neil Shea

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Ramadi Nights ... is a riveting read.


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Snapshots of a Fading War



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