Fear and faith in paradise: exploring conflict and religion in the Middle East

Prologue: A moment of opportunity

Introduction: Terror in the name of God

Part I: Wars of choice. Be nice to Americans ; Refugees from Iraq and Lebanon flee to Syria

Holy fools and the Red Crescent ; Made in America ; Warlords and a Lebanese prophet ; Poppy fields, McDonald's, Armageddon, and the Loire Valley ; Hezbollah and U.S. cluster bombs ; Istanbul : ground zero in the clash of civilizations ; Bombs away on the PKK ; The Peshmerga and Mercy Corps ; Refugees, water, schools, clinics, and wheelchairs ; It's the oil, Habibi, the oil ; The sunshine peddler's parlor game ; Saying boo! to the bogeyman

Part II: A theocracy. A wall of mistrust ; Coca-Cola and KFC in Tehran ; Desert gardens, Imam Hussein, and the eternal flame ; King of kings in wine country ; Fear and faith in paradise

Part III: Shadow and light : an Arab Spring. Morocco and the February 20 Movement ; The Jasmine Revolution

Epilogue.