By MICHAEL R. GORDON
An Iraqi archive kept classified until this week reveals how Saddam Hussein attempted to win Soviet support before the first American war with Iraq.
In the empty desert, Saudi Arabia is building entire cities envisioned as spaces for education, industry, living, and more importantly, as islands from which social change might seep out, without antagonizing fundamentalist forces within the country.
I.M. Pei, Frank Gehry, Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel discuss their work in the Persian Gulf.