From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man’s Middle Eastern Odyssey

ISBN-13: 9780006530701 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 588 str.

Thomas Friedman

Opis

In this text, Friedman reaches deep into the traumatic and complex recent history of the conflicts in the Middle East. For this edition, Friedman has added a further two chapters that bring the book up to 1995 and the unfolding and stalling of the Middle Eastern peace process.

Recenzje

'Jubilantly intelligent - a dashing hybrid of autobiography and journalism... a lifeline to the sane, a beacon to the hopeful.'
Michael Coren, The Times

'Friedman fills the yawning gap between verbiage and understanding with grace, precision and insight.'
Economist.

'A striking achievement.'
Financial Times.

O autorze

Thomas Friedman was born in Minneapolis in 1943. He completed his post-graduate Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, before becoming a journalist. From 1979 to 1984, he became the New York Times' Beirut bureau chief, moving south to Jerusalem in 1984 to become bureau chief there. In January 1989 he became the New York Times' chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington. Friedman has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from the Middle East.