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The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday : unexpected encounters in the changing Middle East / Neil MacFarquhar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacFarquhar, Neil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Middle East.
- Social change.
- Political culture--Middle East.
- Political culture.
- Middle East--Description and travel.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Middle East--Social life and customs.
- Middle East--Politics and government--1979-.
- MacFarquhar, Neil--Travel--Middle East.
- MacFarquhar, Neil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since his boyhood in Qadhafi 's Libya, and later as a reporter for more than thirteen years in cities stretching from Tehran to Marrakesh, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its contemporary history, is a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. In The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday MacFarquhar shares a lesser known side of the region, the story he always wanted to file. MacFarquhar shows the daily lives and attitudes of people frequently obscured behind the curtain of violence: the stories of chefs and sex therapists, bloggers and academics struggling to reform on their own terms.
- Contents:
- The beachhead
- The return
- The good life
- Satellite TV
- Thanksgiving
- Fatwa!
- Talking about Jihad
- Police states
- Above the law
- Tribes
- Working in isolation
- The muslim brotherhood
- Arrested development
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-367) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7867-4153-8
- 9786612460142
- 1-282-46014-5
- OCLC:
- 395961751
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