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Middle East Primer | (My Middle East)
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77 days with a journalist, Lebanon, and a list of non sequiturs. Leave a comment ». Whenever I started to work on a story in Lebanon I would think -how would I explain this to someone who knows little about this Middle East? I just finished Paul Salem’s (Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut) “ The Middle East: Evolution of a Broken Regional Order. The Carnegie website has hundreds of their expert’s papers. Avaiable in full PDFs on their website. The ones I plan on reading next:. Fill in ...
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Summer reading Vol. 4 | Engaging the Muslim World | (My Middle East)
https://sharqawsatee.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/summer-reading-vol-4-engaging-the-muslim-world
77 days with a journalist, Lebanon, and a list of non sequiturs. Summer reading Vol. 4 Engaging the Muslim World. Leave a comment ». The fourth edition of the summer reading series is Engaging the Muslim World by Juan Cole. I hadn’t read a whole lot of Cole’s work before this, maybe just his recent Iran stuff. So this a nice change of authors from Friedman last week. In the end Engaging the Muslim World is a series of reminders about the very western, Americanized way that most people in the U.S....That ...
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Summer reading Vol. 3 | From Beirut to Jerusalem | (My Middle East)
https://sharqawsatee.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/summer-reading-vol-3-from-beirut-to-jerusalem
77 days with a journalist, Lebanon, and a list of non sequiturs. Summer reading Vol. 3 From Beirut to Jerusalem. The third book on my summer reading list was From Beirut to Jerusalem. By Thomas Friedman. Some of you may know that I particularly dislike Friedman’s. Current Op-Ed pieces where he parachutes into a city and makes outlandish claims. But this book, does not fall into that category. Apparently there are definitive good Friedman and bad Friedman eras. Tribalism and self preservation guide most d...
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Visit to the National Museum of Beirut | (My Middle East)
https://sharqawsatee.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/visit-to-the-national-museum-of-beirut
77 days with a journalist, Lebanon, and a list of non sequiturs. Visit to the National Museum of Beirut. Leave a comment ». I took a trip to the National Museum of Beirut. Yesterday with a friend from the newspaper. It was a great experience and I would recommend a visit for anyone who’s in Beirut. For that reason (for all the would-be travelers out there) I would recommend the national history museum as one of your last stops on your visit, it helps tie a lot of things together. 8230;The first protectio...
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New chapter | (My Middle East)
https://sharqawsatee.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/new-chapter
77 days with a journalist, Lebanon, and a list of non sequiturs. Leave a comment ». As for this blog, I’m planning on keeping it running. While I can’t promise post-street clash coverage from Aisha Bakkar; I’m going to try to keep blogging on current events and my recent foreign policy readings. I’m also going to finish out the last two book reviews of the summer in the next week (The Inheritance, Sanger and The Great War for Civilization, Fisk). August 12, 2009 at 1:12 am. Posted in Thoughts and Ideas.
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