| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mr. Q, I love you : Oriental studies meets the Middle East -- It's a fine line : journalism on the road from Damascus -- The plot in the conspiracy : spies in the Syria-Lebanon-Palestine triangle -- Hunting for scapegoats : foreign interference and misrule in Lebanon -- A pilgrimage to Jerusalem : the Israeli-Palestinian entanglement -- The drunken lover : revolutionary Iran's struggle with its poetic soul -- Subversion in the harem : women on the rise, from Cairo to Istanbul -- War, war to victory : Iran's school of martyrdom and love -- Holy Manhattan : destroying old Mecca in the name of Islam -- Life and death with al-Qaeda : a Saudi missionary and the 'wonderful boys' of Sept. 11 -- Tea with the brigadier : failing the famished of south Sudan -- The central bank governor has no socks : Taliban warlords, Pakistani feudals and the nation state -- Regal republics, democratic kings : Syria, Jordan and the dimensions of dictatorship -- Saddamized : inside Iraq's psychotic stress machine -- Jousting with the juggernaut : how not to stop a U.S. invasion -- Stop firing! this is a military situation : one step behind the war with the Iraqi Kurds -- The Yezidi heresy : an alternative approach to military liberation -- The general and the professor : America collides with history in Iraq. |
| Source |
NBK 3/10 PPL |
| Subject |
Middle East -- Description and travel.
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Middle East -- History -- 1979-
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
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Journalists -- Middle East -- Biography.
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Pope, Hugh -- Travel -- Middle East.
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| ISBN |
9780312383138 |
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0312383134 |
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