In 1952, when American college teachers John and Mildred Adams with
their two small children sailed past the Statue of Liberty on their
way to Egypt and a new, unpredictable life, they were trembling
with excitement. At last, a chance to see the world Something of
that thrill persisted through their eight eventful years in the
Middle East: in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon. Those years in the Middle
East were a brief period of relative stability, prosperity, and
friendliness toward the West, just before the whole area was
violently torn apart by wars and terrorism. In that almost Golden
Age, traditional patterns of culture-manners, customs, political
and social institutions, loyalties, taboos, ideals, ethical
standards, religious beliefs-were clearer than they can be in a
time of crisis and disruption like ours. This book's story of the
Adams family's life in that Middle East of half a century ago is
dramatically timely today. Many Americans are sick of the
apparently endless violence and terrorism in the Middle and Near
East and in other places (including the United States) where
Islamic cultures clash with non-Islamic ones-conflict in most of
which the United States is deeply involved. "How did we get into
this mess?" they ask, "and how will it end?" Historians point to
the ignorance of Americans, including our leaders, about the Middle
and Near East and Islam and to the disastrous consequences of that
ignorance. They tell us that stability and peace will never come to
those conflicted areas unless that ignorance is replaced by
understanding, respect, and good will. Sharing in the Adams
family's story the reader can gain that valuable insight and
consequently, perhaps, sympathy and goodwill for all the people
involved.
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