Dining with al-Qaeda
Subtitle: three decades exploring the many worlds of the Middle East
By: Hugh Pope.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780312383138
Subjects: Pope, Hugh -- Travel -- Middle East; Journalists -- Middle East -- Biography; Middle East -- Description and travel; Middle East -- History -- 1979-; Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mr. Q, I love you : Oriental studies meets the Middle East; title: It's a fine line : journalism on the road from Damascus; title: The plot in the conspiracy : spies in the Syria-Lebanon-Palestine triangle; title: Hunting for scapegoats : foreign interference and misrule in Lebanon; title: A pilgrimage to Jerusalem : the Israeli-Palestinian entanglement; title: The drunken lover : revolutionary Iran's struggle with its poetic soul; title: Subversion in the harem : women on the rise, from Cairo to Istanbul; title: War, war to victory : Iran's school of martyrdom and love; title: Holy Manhattan : destroying old Mecca in the name of Islam; title: Life and death with al-Qaeda : a Saudi missionary and the 'wonderful boys' of Sept. 11; title: Tea with the brigadier : failing the famished of south Sudan; title: The central bank governor has no socks : Taliban warlords, Pakistani feudals and the nation state; title: Regal republics, democratic kings : Syria, Jordan and the dimensions of dictatorship; title: Saddamized : inside Iraq's psychotic stress machine; title: Jousting with the juggernaut : how not to stop a U.S. invasion; title: Stop firing! this is a military situation : one step behind the war with the Iraqi Kurds; title: The Yezidi heresy : an alternative approach to military liberation; title: The general and the professor : America collides with history in Iraq.