Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird discusses growing up in America during three major wars and three turbulent decades in the Middle East.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 is his memoir of the years he spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon, in which he provides an original and illuminating perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Comments [3]
Kudos to the designers and editors of the sequence of interviews today.
Mr. Bird hasn't mentioned expressly the tension between the career diplomatic corps and politicians, but I think I hear it simmering -- especially as regards the perceptions career diplomats must develop from extended, direct, personal relations with people directly affected by governments' policies.
Could he discuss the escalating tensions up to the end of WWII and how they enveloped existential threats?
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