Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MSUB11X |
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| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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For six years he was The Australian's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem with his wife, Sylvie Le Clezio, and son, Jack. John has also won the Graham Perkin Award for the Australian Journalist of the Year. He is a former editor, and New York correspondent, of The Sydney Morning Herald and Washington correspondent for The Australian. A three-time Walkley winner, John is currently Associat
John has also won the Graham Perkin Award for the Australian Journalist of the Year. About the Author John Lyons is one of Australia's leading journalists. . For six years he was The Australian's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem with his wife, Sylvie Le Clezio, and son, Jack. He is a former editor, and New York correspondent, of The Sydney Morning Herald and Washington correspondent for The Australian. A three-time Walkley winner, John is currently Associate Editor (Digital Content) at The Australian. While in Jerusalem he and Sylvie won three United Nations Human Ri
Lyons says he has written it in a way that readers can feel they are there with him - so they can smell the wonderful markets of the Middle East and feel the fear of what it is like to be blindfolded and have your hands bound with electrical cord. If you only read one book on the Middle East, this is it.. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his wife and eight-year-old son, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of what it feels like to be taken by Egyptian soldiers, blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East like no other. By telling the story of his family travelling through the region, this book is extremely readable and entertaining, full of humour, colour. Drawing on a 20-year interest in the Middle East, Lyons has had extraordinary access - he's interviewed everyone from Israel's former Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert to key figures from Hezbollah and Hamas. He's confronted Hamas officials about why they fire r