Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir [Audiobook] download free by John Lyons

Listen audiobook: Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir
Author: John Lyons
Release date: 2018/7/2
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD
Language: English
Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
ISBN: 9781460752562
Rating: 7.78 of 10
Votes: 281
Review by: Magnus Grice
Review rating: 9.91 of 10
Review Date: 2018/10/3
Duration: 4H51M58S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-16
You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, WMA Lossless, WAV, OGG, AIFF, MP3, MPEG4 (compression ALZ, LZ, RAR, TAR.BZ, TAR.Z, ZIP)
Total pages original book: 384
Includes a PDF summary of 45 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 32M55S (9 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take 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 Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert 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. It is sometimes dazzling in its detail, sometimes tragic. Lyons says he has written it in a way that readers can feel they are there with him - so they can smell the wonderful markets of the Middle East and feel the fear of what it is like to be blindfolded and have your hands bound with electrical cord. Lyons also looks at 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank - the mechanics of how this works and the effect it now has on both Israelis and Palestinians.Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife's friends and his own dealings with a range of people over six years. If you only read one book on the Middle East, this is it.
Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General, Memoirs, Middle Eastern History, Press & Journalism
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Format: Paperback
Approximate value: 18.23 USD
Dimensions: 154x235x30mm
Weight: 534g
Printed by: Not Available
Published in: New South Wales, Australia