American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America's Influence in the Middle East
By Brian VanDeMark.
Description
American Sheikhs is the story of a great institution—the American University of Beirut (AUB)—and the families who created and fostered it for almost 150 years. Author Brian VanDeMark’s vivid narrative includes not only the colorful history of AUB and many memorable episodes in a family saga, but also larger and more important themes. In the story of the efforts of these two families to build a great school with alternating audacity, arrogance, generosity, paternalism, and vision, the author clearly sees an allegory for the larger history of the United States in the Mi...
ISBN(s)
1616144769, 9781616144760