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And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East / Richard Engel.

by Engel, Richard, 1973-

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Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Engel, Richard, 1973-

Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Foreign correspondents -- United States -- Biography.

Middle East -- 21st century.

Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

9781451635119 (hc.)

1451635117 (hc.)

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

ix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up close, sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo museum. This is his first view of the carnage these years would pile on. Over two decades Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds and taken hostage. He has watched Mubarak and Morsi in Egypt arrested and condemned, reported from Jerusalem, been through the Lebanese war, covered the whole shooting match in Iraq, interviewed Libyan rebels who toppled Gaddafi, reported from Syria as Al-Qaeda stepped in, and was kidnapped in the Syrian crosscurrents of fighting. He goes into Afghanistan with the Taliban and to Iraq with ISIS. He shares his stories of the major figures, the gritty soldiers, and the helpless victims in the Middle East during this watershed time. We can experience the unforgettable suffering and despair of the local populations. Engel provides a succinct and authoritative account of the ever-changing currents in that dangerous land"--Provided by publisher.

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