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Related: About this forum"And Then All Hell Broke Loose -- Two Decades in the Middle East" by Richard Engel
Last edited Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:05 AM - Edit history (1)
Engle was NBC's chief foreign correspondent in the Middle East. This book is a first-hand memoir of what he witnessed over two decades of reporting from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, etc. -- framed by excellent historical context of the area dating back to the Ottoman Empire.
Riveting.
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Auggie
Feb 2016
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Canadian Interloper
(37 posts)1. Haven't read it yet, but looking forward to
Engel is one of the few "no-bullshit" reporters left.
Auggie
(32,050 posts)2. I'm about to read it for the second time ...
there's a lot to absorb. It's a good primer on the area dating from the Ottoman Empire (in addition to his first-hand accounts).
LuckyLib
(6,927 posts)3. He's also a fluent Arabic speaker (among other languages I suspect) and gets
that language and cultural differences are huge in national and Middle East politics.