Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern WorldSyracuse 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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