Patrick Cockburn is the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of The Year and an acclaimed Middle East correspondent for The Independent. He has authored hundreds of articles on Iraq and its role in the Middle East for The Independent. With his brother Andrew, Patrick is the author of Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (2002), the author of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (2006) and Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq (2008).