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When Alan Johnston, the last Western journalist who dared to remain in Gaza, was kidnapped by terrorists, millions of people around the world felt the need to express their anger and determination to set him free. His captivity was an attack on the freedom of speech, and this collection of Johnston’s dispatches is the long-awaited and moving account of life in Gaza, his ordeal, and his release.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC's Gaza correspondent, was kidnapped by a group known as The Army of Islam on March 12th 2007. After 114 days in captivity, he was finally set free. Johnston now presents From Our Own Correspondent on the BBC World Service.
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BBC correspondent Johnston really gets involved in the story in this absorbing collection of reports, originally for broadcast, from Gaza and other Middle East hotspots. In 2007, he was seized in Gaza by an obscure Palestinian militia and held for 114 days by moody guards who subjected him to death threats and occasional violence; he persevered with a determined, positive-thinking regimen and support from an international campaign. It's a tale that Americans who think of Gaza only as an incomprehensible hellhole might expect, except that Johnston embeds his ordeal amid nuanced, sympathetic reporting that makes the region's travails all too understandable. He introduces Palestinians and Israelis hardened in their hatreds of each other, observes families grieving over children caught in the crossfire and takes us to a beach where Gazans get a break from Gaza. Johnston includes dispatches from Afghanistan under Taliban rule, in which he elegizes Kabul's once vibrant university and dodges Taliban beard inspectors. And he reports from Central Asia on Samarkand's architectural splendors and Mongolia's undying nomad culture. These radio pieces are a bit slender and out of date, but they intimately convey the human reality behind the dire headlines. Photos. (May)
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- PublisherProfile Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1846681421
- ISBN 13 9781846681424
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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