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The Hostage´s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson
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Description for The Hostage´s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; BM; JPS; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 238 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States-as well as the far-reaching implications of those events on Middle Eastern politics today. In 1991, six-year-old Sulome Anderson met her father, Terry, for the first time. While working as the Middle East bureau chief for the Associated Press covering the long and bloody civil war in Lebanon, Terry had been ... Read more
In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States-as well as the far-reaching implications of those events on Middle Eastern politics today. In 1991, six-year-old Sulome Anderson met her father, Terry, for the first time. While working as the Middle East bureau chief for the Associated Press covering the long and bloody civil war in Lebanon, Terry had been ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062385499
SKU
V9780062385499
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About Sulome Anderson
Sulome Anderson is a journalist based between Beirut, Lebanon, and New York City. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, Vice, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Vox. She has covered subjects ranging from Syrian refugee child brides to an ISIS presence in Lebanon and has also worked in Egypt and Turkey, where she reported on anti-government protests. Her goal ... Read more
Reviews for The Hostage´s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
"[A] heart-felt, moving ... examination of a greatly changed Middle East and the groups that benefited from their hostage taking and other terrorist activities, but are far from atoning for them."
Rod Nordland, international correspondent at large, The New York Times and author of The Lovers "Deeply personal and brutally frank ... powerfully demonstrates that suffering need not destroy." ... Read more
Rod Nordland, international correspondent at large, The New York Times and author of The Lovers "Deeply personal and brutally frank ... powerfully demonstrates that suffering need not destroy." ... Read more