Special Iraq supplement: Iraq: one year of occupation

What do Iraqis feel have been the results of Operation Iraqi Freedom and what does the future hold for them? To mark one year since US-led military operations against Iraq began, Al-Ahram Weekly asks Iraqi scholars and ordinary citizens to take stock, reviewing recent publications on Iraq

A nation-state in waiting
A year into the occupation, Iraq's future seems still shrouded in uncertainty. Will Iraq emerge as a failed, fragmented or frail state? Will it be a sectarian and fundamentalist, or a federal, secular and democratic polity? Such questions are as painful and upsetting to Iraqis as they are to their American patrons, writes Faleh A Jabar

Bloodshed and terror
A year after Saddam's fall in the face of invading American tanks, terror still haunts Iraq, writes Salah Hameid

Challenges of the new Iraq
Virtually bankrupted by a series of disastrous wars and a decade of UN-imposed sanctions, Iraq's economic future will only be secured by writing off the country's debt, writes Abbas Alnasrawi

Cross-section of a year
To understand how Baghdad feels one year after the statue fell forget its sectarian divides --look at its class structure. The higher you climb the better Iraq looks, writes Graham Usher in Baghdad

The upside down kingdom
Who won and who lost in the new Iraq?

'I heard American tanks rumbling past my front door'
In an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, an Iraqi political scientist discusses the state of his country one year after the occupation