In Dining with al-Qaeda, Hugh Pope guides the reader on an enlightening, unexpected and sometimes tragi-comic journey through more than a dozen countries, from Afghanistan to Turkey and from Sudan to Iraq. Speaking Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Pope’s experiences give a first-hand feel for warfronts and sieges, Persian poetry and Islamic revolution, and, not least, what to do when an al-Qaeda missionary threatens to kill you.
This new, updated, UK paperback edition is enhanced by more than 80 photos by the author. Look into the book to see, hear and feel what the Middle East is really like, an eye-witness account that shows what usually gets left out by media catering to far-away Western audiences. Read it and the latest news will suddenly make much more sense. Excerpted in Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines and translated into French, Dining with al-Qaeda has been widely praised as “a very good book” (The Economist), “terrific” (The Guardian), and a “fascinating memoir” with “exquisite photos” (Publishers’ Weekly).
ISBN-13 : 978-1527269026
Publisher : Book Printing UK (22 September 2020)