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Dining with al-Qaeda : three decades exploring the many worlds of the Middle East / Hugh Pope.

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Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.

Pope, Hugh -- Travel -- Middle East.

Journalists -- Middle East -- Biography.

Middle East -- Description and travel.

Middle East -- History -- 1979-

Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-

9780312383138 (alk. paper)

0312383134 (alk. paper)

xv, 332 p. ; ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Mr. Q, I love you : Oriental studies meets the Middle East -- It's a fine line : journalism on the road from Damascus -- The plot in the conspiracy : spies in the Syria-Lebanon-Palestine triangle -- Hunting for scapegoats : foreign interference and misrule in Lebanon -- A pilgrimage to Jerusalem : the Israeli-Palestinian entanglement -- The drunken lover : revolutionary Iran's struggle with its poetic soul -- Subversion in the harem : women on the rise, from Cairo to Istanbul -- War, war to victory : Iran's school of martyrdom and love -- Mammon in Mecca :crushing religious diversity in the name of Islam -- Dining with al-Qaeda : a Saudi missionary and the 'wonderful boys' of Sept. 11 -- Tea with the brigadier : failing the famished of south Sudan -- The central bank governor has no socks : Taliban warlords, Pakistani feudals and the nation-state -- Regal republics, democratic kings : Syria, Jordan and the dimensions of dictatorship -- Saddamized : inside Iraq's psychotic stress machine -- Jousting with the juggernaut : how not to stop a U.S. invasion -- Stop firing! this is a military situation : one step behind the war with the Iraqi Kurds -- The Yezidi heresy : an alternative approach to military liberation -- The general and the professor : America collides with history in Iraq.

Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Pope's explorations of the people, politics, religion, and culture of Islamic nations shows there is no such thing as a monolithic "Muslim world." His probing and often perilous journeys--at one point he is forced to quote Koranic verse to argue against his being murdered by a top al-Qaeda leader--provide an eye-opening look at diverse societies often misportrayed by superficial reporting and why-they-hate-us politics.

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