nsabin.blogg.se

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman






From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

Formative experiences for her were hosting foreign citizens from France during junior high and high school, learning Italian in a concentrated course, and living with an Italian family in the "Experiment in International Living" the summer she was sixteen years old and leading an Experiment group in the Dordogne region of France during her college years. In Beirut, she also worked as a translator from French to English for subscribers of Middle Eastern business information. Friedman's five-year assignment there when it was too dangerous for dependents to stay, Ann lived and worked in New York as a copy editor for Institutional Investor magazine.

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

Friedman, an American journalist in London, and they moved to Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. She worked for investment bankers in Chicago, New York, London and Beirut. The next year she took a master's degree at the London School of Economics in International Relations. She graduated from Stanford University in three years with majors in economics and history and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa there.

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

She attended Bettendorf public schools before moving to Des Moines, enrolling in Merrill Junior High School and graduating from Roosevelt High School in 1973. Ann Louise Bucksbaum was born in Marshalltown, Iowa on April 13, 1954.








From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman