
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East
Author: Martin Sieff
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, History

Author: Martin Sieff
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Martin Sieff has covered the Middle East professionally for forty years and has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting. Currently he is the security and terrorism correspondent for United Press International and writes UPI’s regular “Eye on Iraq” and “Iraq Benchmarks” columns. A long-time senior foreign correspondent for the Washington Times, he has also contributed articles to the Times (London), National Review, Jerusalem Post, Belfast Telegraph, and other publications.
This one was a mixed bag for me. My second Politically Incorrect Guide, after The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization, which I did not like at all. On the positive side; this book is incredibly informationally-dense. Author Martin Sieff packs quite a lot into the ~230 pages here. Ther......more
This guy knows his stuff. Helped shed some light on an area of the world I've long wanted to have sorted out in my mind. Really enjoyed finding out the histories behind why things are the way they are over there and what we should be doing differently in our dealings with these countries (Hint -- it......more