Courage. Discipline. Respect for others. Integrity. Loyalty. Selfless commitment.
First are posts on my journey as a writer. The struggles, and what I have learnt. Maybe they will provide other authors with helpful insights. I do hope so.
May 1, 2026
The Beginnings
Like most, I came to writing by accident. Divorce was the first real spur. My sojourn in that particular wilderness gave me a great deal to get off my chest. And sitting in the frigid interior of the yacht to which life had banished me, hammering away at the keys of …
May 9, 2026
Aristotle
Aristotle The army has a habit of leaving soldiers in places where the stories make themselves. I started keeping notes. At the time it was for no particular reason. Now I am grateful, the notes jog my memory, fuel my writing. One late …
May 15, 2026
Knowledge Gap
There is another thing I have learnt from David Baboulene. It is a learning I immediately grasped. And have been unable to ignore ever since. Nowadays – post Bab, as I like to term it – I can hardly watch …
These are all my posts so far. They cover a wide range of topics in my area of interest. And some would say, expertise!
June 3, 2026
Hizballah Formation Part 2
Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah was raised and educated in Najaf, Iraq. He studied alongside Sayyed Baqr al Sadr, collaborating with him on a journal at the same time as Baqr’s founding of Hizb al …
May 20, 2026
Hizballah Formation Part 1
Hizballah explained in four parts, over four weeks. This is the first of four posts on Hizballah. The conventional story is wrong. Hizballah’s survival and tactics were not the result of Iranian design, but of the work of Lebanese Islamic …