Encounters With the Middle East : : True Stories of People and Culture That Help you Understand the Region

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Call Number: 956.04 En
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction / Bruce Feiler -- Bread : Sinai, Egypt / Nicholas Seeley -- The promise coffee : Fethiye, Turkey / Michael McGee -- Key to the city : Beirut, Lebanon / Catherine Watson -- Dancing at the blood festival : Cairo, Egypt/Aqaba, Jordan / Rolf Potts -- The way of suffering : Jerusalem / Erika Trafton -- Kidnapped by Syrian hospitality : Latakia, Syria / Jeff Vize -- Just under your feet : Istanbul, Turkey / Trici Venola -- Confessions of a water pipe smoker : Alexandria, Egypt / Carolyn A. Thériault -- To Hamadan : Iran / Peter Jon Lindberg -- If it doesn't kill you first : Mecca, Saudi Arabia / Murad Kalam -- Walking in Yemen's terraced mountains : Yemen / Tim Mackintosh-Smith -- Witnessing Ashura : Manama, Bahrain / Shannon O'Grady -- In Jerusalem : Jerusalem / Jeff Greenwald -- Serendipity in Cyprus : Cyprus / Wayne Milstead -- Five-star Mussandam bush : United Arab Emirates/Oman / Christopher K. Brown -- Magic carpet ride : Cairo, Egypt / Chris Kipiniak -- Shlonak? : Kuwait / Michael Cornn -- A Damascus cab ride : Damascus, Syria / Waleed al-Shamma' -- An Afternoon in Kavaklıdere : Ankara, Turkey / Umur Çelikyay -- Half truths and olive trees : Jerusalem/Palestinian Territories / Joel Carillet -- Clothes, camaraderie, and qat : Sana'a, Yemen / Betsy Hiel -- Instant mother, just add tea : Bursa, Turkey / Katherine Belliel -- From the oasis to the city : Egypt / Laurence Mitchell -- The neon night of the Emirates : United Arab Emirates / Jason Ward -- Repatriation and Regret : Amman, Jordan / Amanda Coffin -- Oh, little town of Bethlehem : Bethlehem / Pat Walker -- Without cover : Iraq / Yasmine Bahrani -- Gridlocked Tehran at gunpoint : Iran / Mal Karman -- Holy Land blues : Israel / Peter Wortsman -- The Mukhtar and I : Jerusalem / Michel Moushabeck.
30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book features original takes on commonplace "things to do" for the traveler in the Middle East--from marveling at the brilliance of the bazaars to drifting down the Nile in a felucca. It also provides intimate portrayals of people and traditions too often absent from books on the region.--From publisher description.

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