DINING WITH AL-QAEDA

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DINING WITH AL-QAEDA

Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East

CHAPTER TABLE

Prologue

Map of the Middle East

1. Mr. Q, I LOVE YOU

Oriental Studies Meets the Middle East

1. IT’S A FINE LINE

Journalism on the Road from Damascus

1. THE PLOT IN THE CONSPIRACY

Spies in the Syria-Lebanon-Palestine Triangle

1. HUNTING FOR SCAPEGOATS

Foreign interference and Misrule in Lebanon

1. A PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM

The Israeli-Palestinian Entanglement

1. THE DRUNKEN LOVER

Revolutionary Iran’s Struggle with its Poetic Soul

1. SUBVERSION IN THE HAREM

Women on the Rise, from Cairo to Istanbul

1. WAR, WAR TO VICTORY

Iran’s School of Martyrdom and Love

1. MAMMON IN MECCA

Destroying old Mecca in the Name of Islam

1. DINING WITH AL-QAEDA

A Saudi Missionary and the “Wonderful Boys” of Sept. 11

1. TEA WITH THE BRIGADIER

Failing the Famished of South Sudan

1. THE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR HAS NO SOCKS

Taliban Warlords, Pakistani Feudals and the Nation State

1. REGAL REPUBLICS, DEMOCRATIC KINGS

Syria, Jordan and the Dimensions of Dictatorship

1. SADDAMIZED

Inside Iraq’s Psychotic Stress Machine

1. JOUSTING WITH THE JUGGERNAUT

How Not to Stop a U.S. Invasion

1. STOP FIRING! THIS IS A MILITARY SITUATION

One Step Behind the War with the Kurds

1. THE YEZIDI HERESY

An Alternative Approach to Military Liberation

1. THE GENERAL AND THE PROFESSOR

America Collides with History in Iraq

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Index