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Selected Writings
- Edited version of speech given at the National Biography Award Ceremony, the State Library of New South Wales, 16 August 2025
- Edited extract from Bullet, Paper, Rock – A Memoir of Words and Wars, Sydney Review of Books, 5 April 2024.
- On dangerous ground: land degradation is turning soils into deserts. The Conversation, 28 March 2018.
- Who’s been left behind? Why sustainable development goals fail the Arab world. The Lancet, 15 January, 2016.
- Iran deal fails to address rampant Arab militarisation. The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2015.
- Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival. The Lancet, 20 January 2014.
- As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work. The Guardian, 6 December 2013.
- Obama’s Riddle of the Sphinx. The Age (Melbourne), The Brisbane Times (Brisbane) and WAToday (Perth), 7 February 2011.
- Evoking Past Conflagration is not Helping. The Age, 21 August 2006.
- The Tribes of War. The New York Times, 27 July 2006.
- Letter from Beirut, Australian Book Review. May 2003, no 251.
- Covering One’s Track: Desert Roads from Memory to Fable, essay on memory and loss, Overland, June 2000.
- Words, Swords and Insomniac Beauties, essay on the 1001 Nights and the work of Eva Sallis, Meanjin, 1999.
