From Beirut to Jerusalem

Prelude: from Minneapolis to Beirut

Would you like to eat now or wait for the cease-fire?

Beirut: city of versions

Hama rules

The teflon guerilla

Inside the kaleidoscope: the Israeli invasion of Lebanon

Poke, Beirut-style

Betty Croker in Dante's Inferno

The end of something

Time to go

Crosswinds

Whose country is this, anyway?

The fault line

The earthquake

Under the spotlight

Israel and American Jews: who is dreaming about whom?

From Beirut to Jerusalem to Washington

Talking with my grocer

Buying a ticket

Afterword: watching elephants fly.

A Middle East chronology

Prelude: From Minneapolis to Beirut

Beirut. Would you like to eat now or wait for the cease-fire? ; Beirut: city of versions ; Hama rules ; The teflon guerrilla ; Inside the kaleidoscope: the Israeli invasion of Lebanon ; Poker, Beirut-style ; Betty Crocker in Dante's Inferno ; The end of something ; Time to go

Jerusalem. Crosswinds ; Whose country is this, anyway? ; The fault line ; The earthquake ; Under the spotlight ; Israel and American Jews: Who is dreaming about whom? ; Conclusion: From Beirut to Jerusalem to Washington.