At the 2007 New Yorker Festival the "Iraq Revisited Panel" talked about the situation in Iraq. Topics included the cycles of change in the country and the current military, political, governmental, and economic situation. Other topics included the role of Iran in the region and Iraqi refugees. George Packer moderated. The panelists responded to questions from members of the audience. George Packer is the author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ali Allawi is the author of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, published by Yale University Press. John Lee Anderson is the author of The Fall Of Baghdad, published by Penguin Press. Phebe Marr is the author of The Modern History of Iraq, published by Westview Press. David Kilcullen was the senior counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus in Iraq.