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4.1/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Pages 541 (1990) Page count 541 (1990) | 4.1/5 Goodreads Country United States Media type Print Originally published 1989 Genre Memoir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Lebanon, Israel, Palestine Publication date 1989
August 1990 (first paperback, expanded) Awards National Book Award for Nonfiction Publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Doubleday (1990) Similar Thomas L Friedman books, Israel books, Middle East books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) is a book by American journalist Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem through the first year of the Intifada. It received the 1989 National Book Award for Nonfiction and also the Cornelius Ryan Award.
Friedman wrote a 17-page epilogue for the first paperback edition (Anchor Books, 1990) concerning the potential for peaceful resolution in Israel and Palestine.
Criticism
In a book review for The Village Voice, Edward Said criticized what he saw as a naive, arrogant, and orientalist account of the Israel–Palestine conflict.
References
From Beirut to Jerusalem Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA