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Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir
Category: Books > Biographies > Biographies
Author/Artist: JOHN LYONS
ISBN / ID: 9781460752562
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$34.99
  
Description: Leading Australian journalist John Lyons takes readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his wife and eight-year-old son, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of what it feels like to be taken by Egyptian soldiers, blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East like no other.

Drawing on a 20-year interest in the Middle East, Lyons has had extraordinary access - he's interviewed everyone from Israel's former Prime Ministers to key figures from Hezbollah and Hamas. He's witnessed the brutal Iranian Revolutionary Guard up close and was one of the last foreign journalists in Iran during the violent crackdown against the 'Green Revolution'. He's confronted Hamas officials about why they fire rockets into Israel and Israeli soldiers about why they fire tear gas at Palestinian school children.

By telling the story of his family travelling through the region, this book is extremely readable and entertaining, full of humour, colour.
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