Books
April, 1987
The only time we hear about them is when they blow something up. So The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage (Random House), by David Lamb, comes as a well-timed relief from the bum raps, the exaggerations and the silly stereotypes from which our burnoose-wearing friends suffer. As he was in The Africans, Lamb is journalistically alert--his account of the first days of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon is first-rate, and one even comes away with a better understanding of the delicate and d...
