{"product_id":"the-road-to-fatima-gate-the-beirut-spring-the-rise-of-hezbollah-and-the-iranian-war-against-israel-paperback","title":"The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael J. Totten\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Road to Fatima Gate\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten's version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world's most volatile region is one part war correspondence, one part memoir, and one part road movie. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown Beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah's supposedly friendly \"media relations\" department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border during the six-week war in 2006, witnesses an Israeli ground invasion from behind a line of Merkava tanks, sneaks into Hezbollah's postwar rubblescape without authorization, and is attacked in Beirut by militiamen who enforce obedience to the \"resistance\" at the point of a gun. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Cedar Revolution that ousted the occupying Syrian military regime in 2005 to the devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 to Hezbollah's slow-motion but violent assault on Lebanon's elected government and capital, Totten's account is both personal and comprehensive. He simplifies the bewildering complexity of the Middle East; gains access to major regional players as well as to the man on the street; and personally witnesses most of the events he describes. \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Fatima Gate\u003c\/i\u003e should be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Middle East, Iran's expansionist foreign policy, the Arab-Israeli conflict, asymmetric warfare, and terrorism in the aftermath of September 11.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael J. Totten is a foreign correspondent and foreign-policy analyst who has reported from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeirut's Daily Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReason Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAzure Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Australian edition of \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eWorld Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife and two cats in Portland, Oregon, and is a former resident of Beirut. Visit his website at MichaelTotten.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771047674144,"sku":"9781594036422","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/865e25497422eb7b0202f7d69d356a3a.webp?v=1780382501","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-road-to-fatima-gate-the-beirut-spring-the-rise-of-hezbollah-and-the-iranian-war-against-israel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}