From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the
Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in
Lebanon in the '50s and '60s-the story of a sensitive young man and
budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, east
and west. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of
the Middle East, Fouad Ajami's sensibility was powerfully shaped by
his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s. The time
was a transitional one-not only for the Middle East, but for
America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its
own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as
well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab
society. The disruptive forces of the Middle East-the Cold War, the
Palestinian conflict, religious extremism, the money and oil of the
Gulf-were only just beginning to appear. In this haunting and
beautifully written memoir of his Lebanese childhood, the late
Middle East scholar, Fouad Ajami, casts a discerning light into the
corners and alleyways of an Arab reality that would later erupt
into full view.
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