Welcome letter of June 13, 2008

I hope this finds you well.

My big news is the publication of my new book: Re-engage! America and the World After Bush.  Go to the book's website there for a lot more information, including on how to buy the book, book events I'll be doing over the weeks ahead, etc. 

If you're in New York City, on June 18, at 5:30 p.m., and you're concerned about our country's relationship with the rest of the world, come join a fast-paced discussion of:

Image from Re-engage book cover

with Helena Cobban (okay, that's me), New America’s Bill Hartung, and Rootless Cosmopolitan’s Tony Karon.

Where: CakeShop, 152 Ludlow St.(Lower East Side, betw. Stanton & Rivington.)


Apart from the book promotion, I am currently spending most of each workweek-- when I'm not traveling-- in Washington, DC, and most weekends back home in Charlottesville, VA. 

Given how mobile I am, contacting me by email is the best way.  Or you can use my cellphone, if you know the number.  Snail-mail should still be sent to our family home in Charlottesville, Va.

I am really excited to be able to catch up with old friends here in DC, and to "re-engage" with the policy world here at a time of such change and promise on war-to-peace issues.  (Go, Obama!) And I'm really happy to be able to do this in the context of my part-time affiliation with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, with whom I carry the distinguished title of Friend in Washington.

In the May/June issue of Boston Review I have a slightly long analytical piece titled Breakout: Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.  Over the past years I have amassed quite a lot of writings about Hamas-- on the blog and in various print media.  So now I've constructed a portal page to most of those writing, which is here.  You can find that link and links to a number of other handy portal pages up near the top of the sidebar on my Just World News blog.

I am still contributing fairly frequent-- though no longer regularly scheduled-- contributions on global issues to The Christian Science Monitor. You can access those here.

If you haven't visited my blog recently-- or perhaps at all?-- you'll find that the right sidebar now contains huge amounts of different materials.  Only the "Del.icio.us" picks there get updated frequently, though the rest of it undergoes fairly frequent tweaks, updatings, and edits.  The main blog-- the "posts"-- is the material you find over in the broad left column.  There's a handy list (with hyperlinks) of the titles of the 25 most recent posts just a little way down the right sidebar, so you can just click directly on any of those that you find interesting.

Do please also explore this present web-site as much as you want.  Buttons to access its content are on the left.  

And stay well--  Helena.

This web-site will always be a work in progress.  Please send any comments you have (or, if I know you, your news, which I always love getting) to Helena Cobban , web-meistress.