Charles Glass

Charles Glass is a former Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News and the author of They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France. His latest book is Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War. (December 2024)

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Lebanon’s Year of Living Ambiguously

After the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah decided to draw Lebanon into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tit-for-tat bombings along the border with Israel overshadowed the country’s political and economic plight.

December 19, 2024 issue

Letter from Mount Lebanon

“The demise of ancient antagonisms should be a reason for hope in this hopeless land, but it isn’t. Ehden’s tranquility does not hide the fact that peace is precarious here.”

December 10, 2023

Disenchantment and Devastation in Syria

The civil war may be over in Damascus, but the mood in the city is one of resignation.

March 23, 2023 issue

Anything Can Happen

Notions of authorship, creator, and creatures, as well as of love, folly, and imagination, dominate Salman Rushdie’s and Ariel Dorfman’s retellings of Don Quixote.

Cautivos

by Ariel Dorfman

Quichotte

by Salman Rushdie

October 21, 2021 issue