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" Live from Jordan : "
Benjamin Orbach.
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BL
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1017110
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b771480
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| Main Entry
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Orbach, Benjamin.
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Live from Jordan : : letters home from my journey through the Middle East /\ Benjamin Orbach.
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1st ed.
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New York :: American Management Association,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0814400795
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0814474276
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9780814474273
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| Contents
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The Arab street. Map of the Middle East -- Head first : lost in Amman -- Palestine, Palestine, Palestine -- Three-minute showers and the Heinz ketchup eaters -- Life in the seven-layer dip -- From American superstar to baby killer. Map of Syria -- Istanbul to Antakya : from Europe's back porch to Syria's doorstep -- Adventures with St. Simon, Jackie Chan, and the ghost of T.E. Lawrence -- Syria's walls : public space and private worlds -- Living the life. Map of Jordan -- "Fast times" at Jordan University and Friday lunch with Abu Alaa -- Anti-Americanism : America haters and the assassination of Laurence Foley -- Fasting without feasting -- Anti-Americanism : American policy critics and a night at the club -- A woman's world -- Crossing Palestine -- Pickaxes and squeegees -- The beating heart of the Arab east. Map of Egypt -- The mother of the world -- Amid the ambers of the Arab street -- Salah al Fuli and the fall of Baghdad -- Beauty and the beasts -- Amman dreaming -- The oasis.
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On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having a degree in Middle Eastern studies, he was completely unprepared for what he discovered. Beyond the anti-American sentiment he expected, he found a complex, curious people whose lives were made even more difficult by an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness. Live from Jordan is the story, told via his letters home, of Orbach's one year trip through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, and Turkey. As he begins his unforgettable jo.
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Orbach, Benjamin-- Travel-- Middle East.
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Orbach, Benjamin.
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Anti-Americanism-- Middle East.
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Anti-Americanism.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Travel.
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Jordan, Description and travel.
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Middle East, Description and travel.
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Jordan.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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956.05/4092B
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DS153.2.O73 2007eb
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