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The road to Fatima Gate : the Beirut Spring, the rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian war against Israel / by Michael J. Totten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Totten, Michael J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Lebanon.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Islam and politics--Lebanon.
- Islam and politics.
- Islam and state--Lebanon.
- Islam and state.
- Journalists--Lebanon--Biography.
- Journalists.
- State-sponsored terrorism--Iran.
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- Iran--Foreign relations--Israel.
- Iran.
- Israel--Foreign relations--Iran.
- Israel.
- Lebanon--Politics and government--1975-1990.
- Lebanon.
- Lebanon--Politics and government--1990-.
- Hizballah (Lebanon).
- Totten, Michael J--Travel--Lebanon.
- Totten, Michael J.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Other Title:
- Fatima Gate
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten's version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world's most volatile region is one part war correspondence, one part memoir, and one part road movie.He sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown Beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah's supposedly friendly ?media relations" department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border during
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Beirut Spring; Chapter 1: State Within A State; Chapter 2: Hanging with Hezbollah; Chapter 3: We Know Where; Chapter 4. The Shatter Zone; Chapter 5: Welcome To Hezbollahland; Chapter 6: Something Dark is Coming; Chapter 7: Everything Could Explode At Any Moment; Chapter 8: The July War; Chapter 9: Hezbollah's Putsch; Chapter 10: From Jerusalem To Beirut; Chapter 11: So This Is Our Victory; Chapter 12: The Seige of Ain Ebel; Chapter 13: The Solution Is In Tehran; Chapter 14: Guns In the Capital; Chapter 15: Gotterdammerung; Chapter 16: The Mystic In His Bunker
- Chapter 17: The Arabist in His PalaceChapter 18: The Warlord in His Castle; Chapter 19: A Hurricane in the Land of the Cedars; EPILOGUE: Death to the Dictator; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ENDNOTES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594036552
- 1594036551
- OCLC:
- 827744030
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