Table of Contents
Sections cut from the 2013 version are in red.
Starred entries were left out of
the Author's Cut as well.
Chapter 1: From the Midwest to the Middle East
- Border Prologue
- Degree of Freedom
- The Sinai
- Eye of the Storm
Chapter 2: Olives, Tea, and Assault Rifles
- Galilee
- Into the West Bank
- Jayyous
- The Wall
- Olive Rain
- Surrounded
- Rania's House
- Yusif's Islam
- Qais
- Ramadan
Chapter 3: Behind the Fence
- Nablus
- Dan in Israel
- Ramadan Daze
- Dan in Palestine
- Thunderstorm
- Helicopters and Hellfire
- Settlement
- The Eid
- The Last Picnic
- Home Again
Chapter 4: Ramallah — Palestine has its own Beer?
- Ben Gurion Airport
- Ramallah
- The Muqataa
- Office Life
- Sangria's
- Invasion Party
- Yasmine
- Ramallah International Film Festival
- Cops and Robbers
- Cold War and Peace
Chapter 5: Suddenly a Journalist
- Jayyous Nights
- Grapevines and Sea Breezes
- Amman Again
- Home Sweet Ramallah
- Dead Sea Stroll
- Arabian Idol
- Bethlehem's Walls
- Goons. Hired Goons.
- An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
Chapter 6: Bombings, Weddings, and a Kidnapping
- Suicide Bomb
- Checkpoint Wedding
- Disappeared
- Osama the Commie
- Shoot 'em Up
- Zeitoun
- Another Bombing
- Days of Penitence
Chapter 7: Arafat's Funeral
Chapter 8: Running for President in a Nation without a Country
Chapter 9: Holy Land Spring
- Gunpoint
- Winter Living
- Eid al Adha
- Ceasefire
- Suicide Bomber's Family Shunned
- Thuglife
- Nablus in April
- Passover
- Bab al Shams
Chapter 10: The Grand Tour
Chapter 11: The Gaza Disengagement
Chapter 12: The Last Ramadan
- Visa Laundering
- Islamic Jihad vs. Hamas vs. Fatah
- Gaza Holiday *
- Ahmed's Heart (Click to read article this section is based on)
- Dinner with a Suicide Bomber's Family
- Settler Logic
- Leaving Ramallah
- Sinai Reflections
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