Lands of the Unexpected: Memoirs of the Middle East 1930-1960

In 1930, during the author's first assignment in Turkey, a wise old Cypriot philosopher said to him, "Just remember that you are working in a region where the unexpected is normal." In the more than 20 years that followed, this became increasingly evident; the more one stays in that part of the world the less one dares to predict. An American missionary, with 30 years service in various lands of the region once commented, "I can say that I have never been bored, for each morning as the Muez...