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Description edit
A winner of the National Book Award, the seminal study of the Middle East conflict by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has been updated with the addition of a new chapter that traces the situation up to 1995.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Yasir Arafat: Add a description of this character.
- Hafez Assad
- Yitzhak Shamir
- Ariel Sharon
- Bashir Gemayel
- Amin Gemayel
- Ronald Reagan
- Schiller
- George Shultz
- Shimon Peres
- Rifaat
- Rabin
- David Hartman
- Mohsen
- Kelman
- Chafets
- Saddam
- Benvenisti
- Walid Jumblat
- Rabbi Waldman
- Pollard
- Ben-gurion
- Avineri
- Shartouni
- Chamoun
- Menachem Begin
Setting & Locations edit
- Israel
- Lebanon
- West Bank
- East Jerusalem
- West Beirut
- Gaza Strip
- Syria
- Palestine
- Jordan River
- Hama
- Egypt
- Washington
- Tel Aviv
- East Beirut
- New York
- Shatila
- Hebron
- Nablus
- Iran
- Sabra
- Damascus
- Amman
- Tira
- Haifa
- London
- Iraq
- Minneapolis
- Ramallah
- Kalandia
- Judea
- Samaria
- Galilee
- Cairo
- Sidon
- Old City Of Jerusalem
- Saudi Arabia
- Tripoli
- Bekaa Valley
First Sentence edit
In June 1979, my wife, Ann, and I boarded a red-and-white Middle East Airlines 707 in Geneva for the four-hour flight to Beirut.
Table of Contents edit
A Middle East Chronology
1. Prelude: From Minneapolis to Beirut
BEIRUT
2. Would You Like to Eat Now, or Wait for the Cease-fire?
3. Beirut: City of Versions
4. Hama Rules
5. The Teflon Guerrilla
6. Inside the Kaleidoscope: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
7. Poker, Beirut-Style
8. Betty Crocker in Dante's Inferno
9. The End of Something
10. Time to Go
JERUSALEM
11. Crosswinds
12. Whose Country is This, Anyway?
13. The Fault Line
14. The Earthquake
15. Under the Spotlight
16. Israel and American Jews: Who Is Dreaming About Whom?
WASHINGTON
17. From Beirut to Jerusalem to Washington
18. Talking With My Grocer
19. Buying a Ticket
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
Authors & Contributors edit
- Thomas L. Friedman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: July 15, 1990
ISBN: 0385413726
Page Count: 608
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: July 15, 1990
ISBN: 0385413726
Page Count: 608
Awards edit
- National Book Award (1989: Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: 89-45583
- Dewey: 956.04
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Ethnic Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › International › Relations
- Books › History › Middle East › Israel
- Books › History › World
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