McFarquhar, Neil <br/><br/>
The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday :   unexpected encounters in the changing Middle East / 
Neil MacFarquhar  
 - New York :  PublicAffairs,   c2009. 
 - xi, 385p. :  ill., maps ;  21cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliography and index 
<br/><br/> Since his boyhood in Qadhafi 's Libya, and later as a reporter for more than thirteen years in cities stretching from Tehran to Marrakesh, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its contemporary history, is a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. In The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday MacFarquhar shares a lesser known side of the region, the story he always wanted to file. MacFarquhar shows the daily lives and attitudes of people frequently obscured behind the curtain of violence: the stories of chefs and sex therapists, bloggers and academics struggling to reform on their own terms. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978158648116 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--Middle East-- Libya
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>956.04092 MAC