From Beirut to Jerusalem is Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas Friedman’s memoir chronicling his decade as a news correspondent in the Middle East. He offers a candid behind the scenes look at how news correspondence was conducted and his life as a Jewish journalist in the 1980s Israeli invaded Beirut, Lebanon. Friedman goes on to expound on the nature of being Jewish as he offers the comparison of his time covering the news in Americanized Jerusalem, Israel.