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    Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East
    Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East
    Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East
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    Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East

    Written by Hugh Pope

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region. Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Hugh Pope's explorations of the people, politics, religion, and culture of Islamic nations shows there is no such thing as a monolithic "Muslim World." His probing and often perilous journeys-at one point he is forced to quote Koranic verse to argue against his being murdered by a top al-Qaeda leader-provide an eye-opening look at diverse societies often misportrayed by superficial reporting and "why they hate us" politics.

    With U.S. foreign policy under President Obama aiming to engage more constructively with Muslim nations, this lyrical and often poetic voyage is one of the truly important books of our times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 31, 2010
    ISBN9781400186518
    Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East

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    • 4/5
      An interesting persepective from a caucasian European who lives in the middle east long enough to say he is from there. Very interesting perspectives on the Israeli conflict that contradict a lot of mainstream media. Very little flow, as the chapters are disjointed and not in chronological order.
    • 4/5
      Thirty years is a long time and while I don't think Hugh Pope spent all of tho0se thirty years researching his book, Dining with Al Qaeda, I think the thirty years gave him plenty of time for him to collect the juicer antidotes. Pope covers everything from culture to society to politics and of course, war. Even though Pope's experience begins in 1980 there isn't a logical layout to the format of the book and chronological order is almost nonexistent, making the text feel disjointed and, in some places, messy. However, despite being a seasoned journalist with the Wall street Journal, Pope takes on a tone of conversation and casual - something he admittedly was striving for. To further lighten the mood Pope included revealing photographs (all taken by him).