Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World

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Syracuse University Press, 01‏/11‏/1995 - 432 من الصفحات
In Sandcastles, Milton Viorst draws upon his long personal experience in the Middle East and many recent trips undertaken as a correspondent for The New Yorker to take us deep into the aspirations, fears, prejudices, hopes and convictions of the inhabitants of seven key countries, and of the people without a country - the Palestinians.
 

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The Abbasid Flavor
3
TugofWar
9
Searching for Order
19
Freedom
28
Pouring In Fire
41
Turkey
51
II
57
IV
67
Since Amin
190
The Tragedy Unfolds
201
Abdullahs Dream Arafats Vision
210
Who Decides
226
Kuwait
233
Utopia in the Sands
242
Strange Negotiations
248
The Government of Exiles
261

Meeting Mahfouz
83
Disappointment in the Liberal
90
Despair in the Alleys
96
IV
102
The Brotherhood and the Mosque
110
VII
116
Saladins Scion
122
II
128
Assad as Leader
136
V
149
The Christian Enclave
158
Down from the Mountain
171
Postliberation Normality
270
Jordan
285
American Queen Arab Home
293
Democracy and Fundamentalism
300
Critical Days
308
Iraq Revisited
322
The Survivor
330
Tariq Aziz Speaks
337
Provincial Spring
346
Epilogue
357
Bibliography
387

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