In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...

A Dutch journalist tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East, chronicling first-hand experiences with dictatorship, occupation, terror, and war and casting light on such crises as the Iraq War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. Original.