Chapter Table
CONTENTS
Prologue
Map of the Middle East
1. Mr. Q, I LOVE YOU
Oriental Studies Meets the Middle East
2. IT’S A FINE LINE
Journalism on the Road from Damascus
3. THE PLOT IN THE CONSPIRACY
Spies in the Syria-Lebanon-Palestine Triangle
4. HUNTING FOR SCAPEGOATS
Foreign interference and Misrule in Lebanon
5. A PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM
The Israeli-Palestinian Entanglement
6. THE DRUNKEN LOVER
Revolutionary Iran’s Struggle with its Poetic Soul
7. SUBVERSION IN THE HAREM
Women on the Rise, from Cairo to Istanbul
8. WAR, WAR TO VICTORY
Iran’s School of Martyrdom and Love
9. MAMMON IN MECCA
Crushing Religious Diversity in the Name of Islam
10. DINING WITH AL-QAEDA
A Saudi Missionary and the “Wonderful Boys” of Sept. 11
11. TEA WITH THE BRIGADIER
Failing the Famished of South Sudan
12. THE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR HAS NO SOCKS
Taliban Warlords, Pakistani Feudals and the Nation State
13. REGAL REPUBLICS, DEMOCRATIC KINGS
Syria, Jordan and the Dimensions of Dictatorship
14. SADDAMIZED
Inside Iraq’s Psychotic Stress Machine
15. JOUSTING WITH THE JUGGERNAUT
How Not to Stop a U.S. Invasion
16. STOP FIRING! THIS IS A MILITARY SITUATION
One Step Behind the War with the Kurds
17. THE YEZIDI HERESY
An Alternative Approach to Military Liberation
18. THE GENERAL AND THE PROFESSOR
America Collides with History in Iraq
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index
DINING WITH AL-QAEDA
Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East
CHAPTER TABLE
Prologue
Map of the Middle East
- Mr. Q, I LOVE YOU
Oriental Studies Meets the Middle East
- IT’S A FINE LINE
Journalism on the Road from Damascus
- THE PLOT IN THE CONSPIRACY
Spies in the Syria-Lebanon-Palestine Triangle
- HUNTING FOR SCAPEGOATS
Foreign interference and Misrule in Lebanon
- A PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM
The Israeli-Palestinian Entanglement
- THE DRUNKEN LOVER
Revolutionary Iran’s Struggle with its Poetic Soul
- SUBVERSION IN THE HAREM
Women on the Rise, from Cairo to Istanbul
- WAR, WAR TO VICTORY
Iran’s School of Martyrdom and Love
- MAMMON IN MECCA
Destroying old Mecca in the Name of Islam
- DINING WITH AL-QAEDA
A Saudi Missionary and the “Wonderful Boys” of Sept. 11
- TEA WITH THE BRIGADIER
Failing the Famished of South Sudan
- THE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR HAS NO SOCKS
Taliban Warlords, Pakistani Feudals and the Nation State
- REGAL REPUBLICS, DEMOCRATIC KINGS
Syria, Jordan and the Dimensions of Dictatorship
- SADDAMIZED
Inside Iraq’s Psychotic Stress Machine
- JOUSTING WITH THE JUGGERNAUT
How Not to Stop a U.S. Invasion
- STOP FIRING! THIS IS A MILITARY SITUATION
One Step Behind the War with the Kurds
- THE YEZIDI HERESY
An Alternative Approach to Military Liberation
- THE GENERAL AND THE PROFESSOR
America Collides with History in Iraq
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index