Format:
1 online resource (306 pages)
ISBN:
9781442214798
Content:
From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his wealth of experience to sketch a timely and compelling portrait of the region throughout history. Seamlessly moving between past and present, Karber skillfully develops two overarching themes: How America's footprint can be shifted from a military to a humanitarian emphasis and how fear is used as a cudgel by today's monotheistic leaders to sacrifice the faithful. Whether Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, they all invoke their own vision of paradise, often as incentive, in hopeless conflicts that seem doomed to be repeated. Karber's down-to-earth writing vividly conveys the region's charm and beauty against a backdrop of power struggles among competing faiths, nationalisms, and outside forces.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I: Wars of Choice -- Chapter 1: Be Nice to Americans -- Chapter 2: Refugees from Iraq and Lebanon Flee to Syria -- Chapter 3: Holy Fools and the Red Crescent -- Chapter 4: Made in America -- Chapter 5: Warlords and a Lebanese Prophet -- Chapter 6: Poppy Fields, McDonald's, Armageddon, and the Loire Valley -- Chapter 7: Hezbollah and U.S. Cluster Bombs -- Chapter 8: Istanbul -- Chapter 9: Bombs Away on the PKK -- Chapter 10: The Peshmerga and Mercy Corps -- Chapter 11: Refugees, Water, Schools, Clinics, and Wheelchairs -- Chapter 12: It's the Oil, Habibi, the Oil -- Chapter 13: The Sunshine Peddler's Parlor Game -- Chapter 14: Saying Boo! to the Bogeyman -- Part II: A Theocracy -- Chapter 15: A Wall of Mistrust -- Chapter 16: Coca-Cola and KFC in Tehran -- Chapter 17: Desert Gardens, Imam Hussein, and the Eternal Flame -- Chapter 18: King of Kings in Wine Country -- Chapter 19: Fear and Faith in Paradise -- Part III: Shadow and Light -- Chapter 20: Morocco and the February 20 Movement -- Chapter 21: The Jasmine Revolution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442214774
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442214774
Language:
English
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