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Informationen zum Autor Phil Karber is an award-winning travel writer. He is the author of The Indochina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and Yak Pizza to Go: Travels in an Age of Vanishing Cultures and Extinctions. Since the mid-nineties he has called home Nairobi, Kenya; Hanoi, Vietnam; Bangkok, Thailand; and East London, South Africa. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit the author on his website here. Klappentext From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his wealth of experience to sketch a timely and compelling portrait of the region throughout history. Seamlessly moving between past and present, Karber skillfully develops two overarching themes: How America's footprint can be shifted from a military to a humanitarian emphasis and how fear is used as a cudgel by today's monotheistic leaders to sacrifice the faithful. Whether Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, they all invoke their own vision of paradise, often as incentive, in hopeless conflicts that seem doomed to be repeated. Karber's down-to-earth writing vividly conveys the region's charm and beauty against a backdrop of power struggles among competing faiths, nationalisms, and outside forces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: A Moment of Opportunity Introduction: Terror in the Name of God Part I: Wars of Choice Chapter 1: Be Nice to AmericansChapter 2: Refugees from Iraq and Lebanon Flee to Syria Chapter 3: Holy Fools and the Red Crescent Chapter 4: Made in America Chapter 5: Warlords and a Lebanese Prophet Chapter 6: Poppy Fields, McDonalds, Armageddon, and the Loire Valley Chapter 7: Hezbollah and U.S. Cluster Bombs Chapter 8: Istanbul, Ground Zero in the Clash of Civilizations Chapter 9: Bombs Away on the PKK Chapter 10: Peshmerga and Mercy Corps Chapter 11: Refugees, Water, Schools, Clinics, and Wheelchairs Chapter 12: It's the Oil, Habibi, the Oil Chapter 13: The Sunshine Peddler's Parlor Game Chapter 14: Saying Boo! to the Bogeyman Part II: A TheocracyChapter 15: A Wall of Mistrust Chapter 16: Coca-Cola and KFC in Tehran Chapter 17: Desert Gardens, Imam Hussein, and the Eternal Flame Chapter 18: King of Kings in Wine Country Chapter 19: Fear and Faith in Paradise Part III: Shadow and Light, an Arab SpringChapter 20: Morocco and the February 20th Movement Chapter 21: The Jasmine Revolution Selected Bibliography ...
