[CBI Men's Club] CBI Men's Club Book Club Meeting

[Ehrlich, Dave]

When:  Sunday, June 3rd at 8pm
Where: House of Henry Bloom
	 4 River Rd, Millburn
RSVP:  henry.bloom at novartis.com

Book:  A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey
Goldberg.

The book has received positive reviews.  This one gives a good sense of
the flavor of the book:

"Goldberg's prison experience and the friendship he managed to forge
across the barbed wire with one of the inmates, a Fatah activist and
mathematics whiz from Gaza named Rafiq Hijazi, form the foundation of
his brilliant new book, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle
East Divide. The book is, on one level, an intensely personal
coming-of-age story, tracing Goldberg's progress from secular Jewish
student in New York to Israeli soldier to war correspondent. But it is
also perhaps the best on-the-ground portrait since Thomas Friedman's

>From Beirut to Jerusalem of the hatreds, passions, and illusions

gripping the contemporary Middle East. Goldberg's journey through
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Gaza, and Israel during the period
immediately before and after 9/11 provides disturbing insights into the
abyss separating Arab and Jew, East and West-if not a clash of
civilizations, Goldberg suggests, than a perhaps unbridgeable gulf of
empathy and understanding... Those familiar with his work for The New
Yorker and The New York Times Magazine will recognize the skills that
have made him one of America's finest foreign correspondents."
  - The Washington Monthly, Dec., 2006

There are copies available in the library system.



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