TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verdecchia,Guillermo
AU  - Youssef,Marcus
TI  - A line in the sand
SN  - 0889223750 :
AV  - PR9199.3.V45 L5 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Burnaby, B.C., Buffalo, N.Y.
PB  - Talonbooks, Distributed in the U.S. by General Distribution Services
KW  - Operation Desert Shield, 1990-1991
KW  - Drama
KW  - Canadians
KW  - Qatar
KW  - Historical drama
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-127)
N2  - In Autumn 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base; an act to which his friend the soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant. Weaving poetic drama with a myriad of documentary sources, A Line in the Sand rips the benevolent mask off recent western peacekeeping operations and challenges Canada's long treasured national mythology that it is a nation of quiet diplomats. It asks us to imagine how horrors like these could be perpetrated with our money, in our name and by people much like us
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