Neil MacFarquhar books

The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East (2009)

interesting and accurate although pretty vanilla tales of modern culture of middle east/northern africa. based on the title i was expecting a wittier tale a la Joel Stein/AJ Jacobs but turned out to be more standard fare rather. had a few unique off the beaten path stories but otherwise very ordi...