| Edition |
Expanded edition with new preface and afterword, 2nd Picador edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 632 pages : map ; 21 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: from Minneapolis to Beirut -- Would you like to eat now or wait for the cease-fire? -- Beirut: city of versions -- Hama rules -- The teflon guerilla -- Inside the kaleidoscope: the Israeli invasion of Lebanon -- Poker, Beirut-style -- Betty Croker in Dante's Inferno -- The end of something -- Time to go -- Crosswinds -- Whose country is this, anyway? -- The fault line -- The earthquake -- Under the spotlight -- Israel and American Jews: who is dreaming about whom? -- From Beirut to Jerusalem to Washington -- Talking with my grocer -- Buying a ticket -- Afterword: watching elephants fly. |
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Friedman, Thomas L. -- Travel -- Middle East.
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Arab-Israeli conflict
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
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Lebanon -- Politics and government
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Israel -- Politics and government
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| ISBN |
1250034418 |
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9781250034410 |
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