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From Beirut to Jerusalem

This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journalcalled "a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed." Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." — Seymour Hersh

Subject
historypoliticstravelbiographysociology
Genre
war and militaryhistorical fiction
Themes
politicshistoryjewishjournalistsreligion
Setting
1940s20th centurymiddle eastisraellebanon
Audience
middle grade
Length
long · 571 pages

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