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Leslie Cockburn has a Master’s from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. While in London she began working for NBC News. Among her early reports was an interview with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

In 1978, Cockburn moved to CBS. Her 1984 report, ‘The Dirty War’, revealed the Contras' horrifying record of routine atrocities against the civilian population.

Following the overthrow of the Duvalier regime in Haiti in 1986, Cockburn’s ‘Haiti’s Nightmare’ (1987) led to an outcry in Congress and the suspension of all US military aid to Haiti.

In 1987, Cockburn began producing and reporting documentaries for PBS Frontline, in collaboration with her husband, Andrew Cockburn. This included ‘From the Killing Fields’ for ABC New ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 236 ratings · 38 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Point Safe by Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline & the Contra Drug Connection 4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship by Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn 4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking for Trouble: One Woman, Six Wars and a Revolution 3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baghdad Solitaire 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Control it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vtg Out Of Control - Leslie Cockburn [Hardcover] Leslie Cockburn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Point Safe by Leslie Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanity Fair July 1992 (Single Issue) Luke Perry by Kevin Sessums, Peter J. Boyer, Steven Bach 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.”
“Insha’Allah.”
― Leslie Cockburn, Baghdad Solitaire

tags: singing-in-the-ruins

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“Death was sweetened for the martyrs by the promise of 72 virgins waiting in paradise. She had researched the 72 virgins. The number wasn’t actually in the Quran but in the Hadith 2687, collected in the Book of Sunan. The Quran, in Sura 56, was vague on the point. And theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls … A new analysis translated houris from the Aramaic dialect Syriac as “white raisins”, which put everything in a very different light.”
― Leslie Cockburn, Baghdad Solitaire

tags: houris

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“Mohammed ignored the abuse. What did Ahmed know? It had been years since anyone had studied music in Paris or Seville on a scholarship paid for by the country's oil profits. The only knowledge people mastered these days was how to steal copper wire and load a gun. Mohammed felt like a relic from a lost civilization, buried in the muck of the Tigris. Sassanid, Seleucid, Sumerian. Achaemenid, Assyrian, Akkadian. He sometimes thought he was the only one who remembered. For what it was worth, he could sing the ancient songs of the pearl divers.”
― Leslie Cockburn, Baghdad Solitaire

tags: pearl-divers

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