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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday
Neil MacFarquhar
Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
PublicAffairs
May 2009
On Sale: April 27, 2009
359 pages
ISBN: 1586486357
EAN: 9781586486358
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Since his boyhood in Qadhafi’s Libya, Neil MacFarquhar has
developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East,
despite all the bloodshed in its recent history, is a place
of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity.
In this book, he introduces a cross-section of unsung,
dynamic men and women pioneering political and social
change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather
suit with matching red headscarf, and the Syrian engineer
advocating a less political interpretation of the Koran.
MacFarquhar interacts with Arabs and Iranians in their
every day lives, removed from the violence we see
constantly, yet wrestling with the region’s future. These
are people who realize their region is out of step with the
world and are determined to do something about it—on their
own terms.
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