Susan balderstone (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - David Balderstone's eye-witness account of the events surrounding Egyptian President Nasser's death in 1970 and the subsequent rise to power of Anwar Sadat is interspersed with the observed but partly fictional story of the lives of local people. This is a record of Egyptian society and politics in the early 1970s, with colourful descriptions of life on the streets of Cairo and Luxor. It clearly shows the determination of the Egyptian leadership to achieve a military capacity with which to win back Sinai, and an eventual separate peace with Israel. In reflecting on the Free Officers' Movement that brought Nasser to power in 1952 and the relative lack of politicisation of the local populace before the rise of fundamentalist Islam, the account provides an illuminating contrast to events in the Middle East today.…

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1977 David Balderstone, having researched conditions and calculated a budget, persuaded Greg Taylor, then Editor of Melbourne newspaper 'The Age', that 'The Age' should appoint an Australian journalist in the Middle East, writing for Australians, rather than relying on British and American correspondents. He took up the post on July 1, 1977 and was based in Amman, Jordan for the following six years. During this time he covered the historic visit by Egyptian President Sadat to Jerusalem in November 1977 and subsequent peace talks; Israeli incursions into southern Lebanon in response to Palestinian raids in March 1978; Iran after the fall of the Shah in 1979 and the subsequent American hostage crisis; ongoing troubles in Beirut, the siege of Beirut and expulsion of the Palestinians in 1982; the Iran-Iraq war from both sides; the military coup in Turkey; the Mecca mosque siege in Saudi Arabia; and Arab summits in Cairo, Baghdad and Morocco. In the process he interviewed political and religious leaders as well as ordinary people from communities on all sides of the conflicts. This collection of some of his published articles interspersed with extracts from his letters home gives a picture of the area as it was at that time from his own unique perspective; picking up on local attitudes and eccentricities while homing in on the issues. The seeds of recent and current movements for change in the Middle East - the so-called 'Arab Spring' across North Africa and Egypt; the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq; the Houthis in Yemen and flares of insurgency in the Arabian Gulf States and Saudi Arabia can be detected in these accounts. They trace the events of an earlier period of upheaval growing out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the civil war in Lebanon and the Islamic revolution in Iran. Summing up his six years covering the area, David made some chilling predictions that have proved remarkably prescient.…

Zustand: New.