Dustin Langan's Blog
January 31, 2014
Sectarianism is insatiable (my country, right or wrong)
From International Business Times: Photo: Hmuu Zaw "About 90% of the country's population of 55 million are Buddhist, with Muslims making up between 4% and 8%. Despite tensions, the Buddhist majority has lived largely peacefully along with the Muslims for...
January 30, 2014
900 people killed in Iraq in January
From Al-Akhbar: "Bombings near a ministry building, a market and a restaurant in Baghdad killed 30 people on Thursday as the death toll for January topped 900, with no end in sight to Iraq's worst violence since 2008. At least...
ISIS sells oil to Assad
From the New York Times: "While the oil and gas fields are in serious decline, control of them has bolstered the fortunes of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and the Nusra Front, both of which are...
May 22, 2013
Freedomization wins an award for its cover
Freedomization has received a gold star in TheBookDesigner.com's April 2013 e-Book Cover Design Awards. The book cover was designed by Joe Wray. Read about the award here. Congratulations Joe!
March 19, 2013
Excerpt from Freedomization: the Electricity Movement
All over Baghdad, families drove to the power stations with pistols and AK-47s and ordered the employees to restore electricity to their neighborhoods. It was their chance to make freedomization work for them. The electricity problem was not limited to...
Excerpt from Freedomization: the NGO meeting
That afternoon Jeremy passed out blank forms to the Iraqi civil activists as they took their seats for the Tuesday meeting. “These will be used to make public database,” Sofia announced. “We made it so you can contact each other...
March 14, 2013
Freedomization featured on Al Arabiya
The novel Freedomization is the subject of an article today on the Al Arabiya English website. "The story prioritizes the human aspect of the situation in Iraq, and showcases the complexity of domestic society and politics that the U.S. government...
Freedomization featured on Al Arabiyya
The novel Freedomization is the subject of an article today on the Al Arabiyya English website. "The story prioritizes the human aspect of the situation in Iraq, and showcases the complexity of domestic society and politics that the U.S. government...
February 6, 2013
Excerpt from Freedomization: the checkpoints
“So has anybody come to the office?” Investigator Wang said as he twirled a buckle of spaghetti noodles around his plastic fork. Jeremy told the story of Jamal Izz ad-Din. When it got to the part where sand was dumped...
