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Hello Everybody!
Joris Luyendijk
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Description for Hello Everybody!
Paperback. Featuring the story of author's five years as a reporter in the Middle East, this title alerts us of the way the media gives us a filtered and manipulated version of reality in the Middle East. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and what is later reported in the media. As a correspondent he is privy to the multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, ... Read more
In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and what is later reported in the media. As a correspondent he is privy to the multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846683848
SKU
V9781846683848
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About Joris Luyendijk
Joris Luyendijk was born December 30th 1971 in the Netherlands. His first three books are about the Middle East, the most successful of which appeared in English as Hello Everybody. Joris Luyendijk is currently living in London, having completed an anthropological investigation into how bankers in the City can live with themselves for the Guardian, now a book, Swimming with ... Read more
Reviews for Hello Everybody!
Superb...This book will make readers think twice when they scan foreign news in the papers
Julian Fleming
Sunday Business Post
Excellent...breezy but self-critical
Ian Black
Guardian
Powerful...written in a very engaging, even gripping, style and what makes it most admirable is its honesty
Dan Glazebrook
Morning Star
Julian Fleming
Sunday Business Post
Excellent...breezy but self-critical
Ian Black
Guardian
Powerful...written in a very engaging, even gripping, style and what makes it most admirable is its honesty
Dan Glazebrook
Morning Star