Windows on Interesting Times Bookmarks When the American Embassy in

When the American Embassy in Beirut was blown up on Monday

It is not a chronological account of people and events but an impressionist literary experiment

Academic Dean at St Francis Theological College

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Odd Karsten Tveit gained access to a number of private and public archives

Windows on Interesting Times Bookmarks When the American Embassy inThis book is not a history of the past half century of the Middle East, not a memoir, not an autobiography. It is just what the title says: windows. Windows meant to illuminate the times. Windows opened by journalism. It is not a chronological account of people and events but an impressionist literary experiment. Stories gliding along streams of thought rather than daily entries in a journal or systematic press coverage. While based in Lebanon and