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Loading... Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril (edition 2011)by King Abdullah II of Jordan
Work InformationOur Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril by King Abdullah II of Jordan
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) JadMadi | Sep 25, 2020 |  For any Arab leader who seeks to maintain a good relationship with his people and an acceptable public image; now would be a good time to step up. Although Jordan hasn’t been part of the wave of widespread discontent in the region per se, a reminder and proof of good intention never hurts. Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril by King Abdullah II of Jordan carries an important message on the Arab/Israeli relations while thinly veiled as the king’s autobiography. King Abdullah’s views are sharp and blunt, such as his clear disappointment in other Arab leaders and his belief that Israel has killed any possibility of peace with Palestine; he insists that peace negotiations should urgently start in US President Obama’s reign as he 'speaks the language of peace'. For half of the book, the author focuses on his family, his childhood and adolescence, his education and his marriage. Down to the smallest details, the monarch recounts his life abroad, his memories of trying to escape from his college dorms for a night out without his protective security guards, and how he met his wife, Queen Rania. His anecdotes are insightful and intriguing; after all, it’s not every day that a king writes about how he used to live on canned macaroni. Every few chapters include photo galleries of archived images that document the private side of King Abdullah’s upbringing. Among the pictures, he is shown undertaking an exercise at the British military Academy, personally driving President Obama to the airport after a visit to Amman, and as a crown baby prince held by his father King Hussein. Personal memories and family photographs seem to make Our Last Best Chance a walk down memory lane. Regardless of whether you subscribe to his political views or not, this book provides intriguing insight into the personal lives of the Hashemite family of Jordan and is an excellent PR tool in asserting King Abdullah’s Western-friendly image as a down-to-earth and up-to-date monarch. 1  cairo360 | Aug 1, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a young prince who went to boarding school in America and military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and modernized Jordan's Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover to escape the bubble of the court while she became the Muslim world's most passionate advocate of women's rights. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran's nuclear ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine. No library descriptions found. |
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