Tower of the Sun: Stories from the Middle East and North

Tower of the Sun: Stories from the Middle East and North Africa

Prize-winning author Michael J. Tottenâ€™s gripping first-person narratives from the war zones, police states, and revolutionary capitals of the Middle East and North Africa paint a vivid picture of peoples and nations at war with themselves, each other, andâ€”sometimesâ€”with the rest of the world. His journeys take him from Libya under the gruesome rule of Muammar Qaddafi to Egypt before, during and after the Arab Spring; from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights in Syria on the eve of that countryâ€™s apocalyptic civil war to a camp on the Iran-Iraq border where armed revolutionaries threaten to topple the Islamic Republic regime in Tehran; from the contested streets of conflict-ridden Jerusalem to dusty outposts in the Sahara where a surreal conflict few have even heard of simmers long after it should have expired; and from war-torn Beirut and Baghdad to a lonely town in central Tunisia that seeded a storm of revolution and war that spread for thousands of miles in every direction. Tower of the Sun is a timeless close-up of one of the worldâ€™s most violent and turbulent regions that will resonate for decades to come. Praise for Tower of the Sun â€œA decade in the making, Tower of The Sun is not just an authoritative, intimate and lively reconnaissance of the tectonic upheavals shaking the earth from North Africa's Maghreb to Iraqi Kurdistan. Itâ€™s also a masterpiece of clear-eyed political analysis and literary journalism in the travel-diary style of Paul Theroux.â€ â€“ Terry Glavin, author of The Sixth Extinction â€œTottenâ€¦practices journalism in the tradition of George Orwell: morally imaginative, partisan in the best sense of the word, and delivered in crackling, rapid-fire prose befitting the violent realities it depicts.â€ Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary â€œI can think of only a certain number of people as having risen to the intellectual and journalistic challenges of the last few years, and Michael J. Totten is one of them.â€ Paul Berman, author of Terror and Liberalism â€œMichael J. Totten, to my mind, is one of the worldâ€™s most acute observers of Middle East politics. He is also an absolutely fearless reporter, both physicallyâ€”he has explored the darkest corners of Middle East extremismâ€”and morally.â€ Jeffrey Goldberg, author of Prisoners
Country USA
Brand Belmont Estate Books
Manufacturer Belmont Estate Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780692297537
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Belmont Estate Books
Manufacturer	Belmont Estate Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692297537
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Tower of the Sun: Stories from the Middle East and North Africa

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