Fear and Faith in Paradise

Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle East

Phil Karber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2012
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1477-4 (ISBN)

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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. Going beyond the endless images of terrorism and war, he challenges pervasive stereotypes of Muslims and delves into the living history and cultures of Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Jews, Tunisians, Moroccans, Armenians, and others.

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.

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.

Prologue: A Moment of Opportunity
Introduction: Terror in the Name of God
Part I: Wars of Choice
Chapter 1: Be Nice to Americans
Chapter 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 Theocracy
Chapter 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 Spring
Chapter 20: Morocco and the February 20th Movement
Chapter 21: The Jasmine Revolution
Selected Bibliography

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 235 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Naher Osten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4422-1477-5 / 1442214775
ISBN-13	978-1-4422-1477-4 / 9781442214774
Zustand	Neuware