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Title Dining with al-Qaeda : three decades exploring the many worlds of the Middle East / Hugh Pope.
Author Pope, Hugh.
Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  956.05 POP    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  956.05 POP    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description xv, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note Includes 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.
Summary A journalist and author of the New York Times Notable Book Turkey Unveiled explores the people, politics, religion and culture of Islamic nations, in a book based on his extensive travels in the region, during which he once had to correctly quote from the Koran to avoid being murdered by a top al-Qaeda leader (summary from online).
Local Note LEASE 2010-03
Subject Middle East -- Description and travel.
Middle East -- History -- 1979-
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
Journalists -- Middle East -- Biography.
Pope, Hugh -- Travel -- Middle East.
ISBN 9780312383138 (hc.) : $26.99
0312383134 (hc.)
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