MIDDLE EAST
The Middle East is never far from the top of the news agenda and it has been that way for many years now. However the chances for people to actually visit some of the places that feature in the headlines are remote.听
John McCarthy talks to three journalists and writers who have made many trips to the Middle East and share their unique experience of the various countries of this troubled area.
Presented by John McCarthy
This week's guests:听
听is well known for his reports for publications like Vanity Fair, Playboy and Rolling Stone magazines and books such as Holidays in Hell, Eat the rich, Parliament of Whores.
His latest book Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism examines at America's involvement in the Balkans and the Middle East and in particular the days leading up to and following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 033043781X听
听was the Reuters bureau chief in Beirut in the eighties and the agency's Middle East Diplomatic Correspondent.听 In those roles he visited nearly every country in the Middle East.听 His latest novel This Green Land is a thriller set against the background of the Lebanese civil war of the mid eighties and early nineties.
This Green Land
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330419765
Shane Brennan has had a unique opportunity to see the Middle East at close quarters in 2000 and 2001 when he made a journey by foot across Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
He did so to follow in the footsteps of Prince Cyrus whose army made the journey from the north coast of Turkey down to Babylon in Mesopotamia in the 5th century BC in an attempt to overthrow the Persian monarch.听 Shane's book is called In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand.
In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand: A Journey on Foot Through Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 0709078854
If you are thinking of travelling to the Middle East,听 (FCO) Travel Advice Notices aim to ensure that British travellers are well prepared before departure.
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Sandi Toksvig: The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info
John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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