# The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday

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- Authors: [Neil MacFarquhar](https://www.bookquiver.com/neil-macfarquhar)
- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-8648-811-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-03-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Since his boyhood in Qadhafi 's Libya, and later as a reporter for more than thirteen years in cities stretching from Tehran to Marrakesh, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its contemporary history, is a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. In The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday MacFarquhar shares a lesser known side of the region, the story he always wanted to file. MacFarquhar shows the daily lives and attitudes of people frequently obscured behind the curtain of violence: the stories of chefs and sex therapists, bloggers and academics struggling to reform on their own terms.