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The Road to Fatima Gate : The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel by Totten, Michael J. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten's version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world's most volatile region is one part war correspondence, one part memoir, and one part road movie.He sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown Beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah's supposedly friendly media relations” department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border during the six-week war in 2006, witnesses an Israeli ground invasion from behind a line of Merkava tanks, sneaks into Hezbollah's postwar rubblescape without authorization, and is attacked in Beirut by militiamen who enforce obedience to the resistance” at the point of a gun.From the Cedar Revolution that ousted the occupying Syrian military regime in 2005 to the devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 to Hezbollah's slow-motion but violent assault on Lebanon's elected government and capital, Totten's account is both personal and comprehensive. He simplifies the bewildering complexity of the Middle East;

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Author

Totten, Michael J.

Publisher

Encounter Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283073523

Category

history

Subjects

Islam, History, Biography

Rating

4.08 / 5 (112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14