This paper presents an overview of the book, "From Beirut to Jerusalem," by Thomas L. Friedman. The paper describes and discusses Friedman's experiences in the Middle East as a reporter for the "New York Times" during the war-torn era of the 1980s and early 1990s.
From the Paper:
"Thomas L. Friedman, author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, presents in this book a journalist's account of the development of the problems in the Middle East from about 1979 to 1995 when this book was published. Friedman is a journalist serving as the Foreign Affairs columnist for the New York Times. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting, and he spent ten years in the Middle East, which is the experience on which he draws to write this book, most of which is personal observation of events at which he was present or an analysis of information and experience garnered from his time in the Middle East. From 1979 to 1981, Friedman was the Beirut correspondent for United Press International, and in 1982 he became the bureau chief in Beirut for the New York Times. He won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for reporting. Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem was written in 1989, after the author's residence as the New York Times correspondent in Beirut."
"From Beirut to Jerusalem" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-From-Beirut-to-Jerusalem/57950