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From Beirut to Jerusalem

by Thomas L. Friedman

ISBN:: 0385413726
Format:: Paperback, 608 pages
Publish Date:: July, 1990
Publisher:: 29
Other Format(s):: Hardcover, Audiobook, E-book

New York Times columnist drew on his years covering the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book to date on the region. Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller has been revised and brought up-to-date. No issue in international politics has been more hotly debated than the Arab-Israeli conflict. No part of the world has consistently made more headlines during the past 40 years than the Middle East. And no reporter has illuminated both the Arab-Israeli conflict and the rhythms of life in the Middle East with more immediacy and brilliance than Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting – once for his coverage of Lebanon and a second time for his work in Israel. Friedman is a master of the sharp anecdote and the telling detail that sum up a world of ideas in microcosm. He describes with intense vividness what it’s like to live in a city gone made like Beirut; he leads the reader on an unforgettable journey into the inner circle of Arab regimes to show how the game of Arab politics is really played; he examines the intifada and Israeli-Palestinian relations. Extremism, terrorism, fundamentalism on both right and left – Friedman puts all the operative currents into perspective with specificity and clarity.

This award-winning work remains a standard text for all who want to gain a greater cultural understanding of a complex global hot-spot.

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