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Milton Viorst

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8 picks · 1987–1991

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AFTER THE LIBERATION
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Kuwait where writer arrived in early August eager to see how the country was faring after 7 months of occupation & 5 of freedom. …

THE YUGOSLAV IDEA
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Yugoslavia made up of six republics & 24 million people. Living within these republics are several dozen ethnic, linguistic, and …

THE HOUSE OF HASHEM
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Jordan. Writer went to a congress organized by JANDA-Jordanian Arab National Democratic Alliance. The group emerged out of a …

Man of Gamaliya
a reporter at large ·

In Cairo, Milton Viorst visits the novelist Naguib Mahfouz, whose symbolic novels explore Egypt’s struggle against colonialism.

THE SHADOW OF SALADIN
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Syria whose Pres. is Hafez al-Assad, whose dream, like Saladin's, has been to unite the Arabs drive the outsider from Islamic …

THE CHRISTIAN ENCLAVE
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Lebanon, especially the country's powerful Maronite Christian community. It was thought this was a good time to go since the …

OUT OF THE DESERT
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Kuwait, a segment of desert roughly the size of New Jersey. It has beneath its surface one of the world's largest reservoirs of…

II-THE VIEW FROM THE MUSTANSIRIYAH
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Iraq. Writer visited Karbala & Najaf-the sacred cities of the Shiites. In Baghdad he learned about the measures taken to give …