From Beirut to Jerusalem

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Author Thomas L. Friedman
Country United States
Language English
Subject Lebanon, Israel, Palestine
Genre Current affairs, memoir
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Anchor Books (1990)
Publication date
1989
August 1990 (first paperback, expanded)
Media type Print
Pages 541 (1990)
ISBN 0-385-41372-6 (1990)
Followed by The Lexus and the Olive Tree

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.[1] It received the 1989 National Book Award for Nonfiction[2] 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.[3]

References

  1. Friedman, Thomas L., 1989, From Beirut to Jerusalem, New York: Doubleday, pp. 162-163.
  2. "National Book Awards – 1989". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
  3. "The Orientalist Express: Thomas Friedman Wraps Up the Middle East", Village Voice 36:42, October 17, 1989.

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