From Beirut to Jerusalem | |
Author: | Thomas L. Friedman |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Lebanon, Israel, Palestine |
Genre: | Current affairs, memoir |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Anchor Books (1990) |
Pub Date: | 1989 August 1990 (first paperback, expanded) |
Media Type: | |
Pages: | 541 (1990) |
Isbn: | 0-385-41372-6 |
Isbn Note: | (1990) |
Followed By: | The Lexus and the Olive Tree |
From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) is a book by American journalist Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem through the first year of the Intifada.[1]
Friedman wrote a 17-page epilogue for the first paperback edition (Anchor Books, 1990) concerning the potential for peaceful resolution in Israel and Palestine.
It received the 1989 National Book Award for Nonfiction[2] and also the Cornelius Ryan Award. In a book review for The Village Voice, Edward Said criticized what he saw as a naive, arrogant, and orientalist account of the Israel–Palestine conflict.[3]