Lebanon and Lebanese workers! What a depressing book! Full of chauvinism, people living in the past and not wanting to move on, but worst of all, constantly complaining! Families plotting against each-other, getting sick and dying from unhealthy life-styles, and the only bright salvation in the book which was his daughter. The author has pointed out in no uncertain terms, where not to go for a visit, and who not to engage to renovate my house. As the senior Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, he earned his second Pulitzer. He was the only American reporter there who spoke Arabic. House of Stone is an unforgettable memoir of the world’s most volatile landscape and the universal yearning for home.Īnthony Shadid (1968-2012), an unparalleled chronicler of the human stories behind the news, gained attention and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, for his front-page reports in the Washington Post from Iraq. Shadid juxtaposes past and present as he traces the house’s renewal along with his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. Now the author of the award-winning Night Draws Near tells the story of the house’s re-creation, revealing its mysteries and recovering the lives that have passed through it.

For two years previous, Shadid had worked to reconstruct the house and restore his spirit after both had weathered war. When Anthony Shadid-one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted-was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected departures.

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