Chapter 1: From the Midwest to the Middle East

1. Border Prologue
2. Degree of Freedom
3. The Sinai
4. Eye of the Storm
   

Chapter 2: Olives, Tea, and Assault Rifles

1. Galilee
2. Into the West Bank
3. Jayyous
4. The Wall
5. Olive Rain
6. Surrounded
7. Rania's House
8. Yusif's Islam
9. Qais
10. Ramadan
    

Chapter 3: Behind the Fence

1. Nablus
2. Dan in Israel
3. Ramadan Daze
4. Dan in Palestine
5. Thunderstorm
6. Helicopters and Hellfire
7. Settlement
8. The Eid
9. The Last Picnic
10. Home Again
    

Chapter 4: Ramallah — Palestine has its own Beer?

1. Ben Gurion Airport
2. Ramallah
3. The Muqataa
4. Office Life
5. Sangria's
6. Invasion Party
7. Yasmine
8. Ramallah International Film Festival
9. Cops and Robbers
10. Cold War and Peace
    

Chapter 5: Suddenly a Journalist

1. Jayyous Nights
2. Grapevines and Sea Breezes
3. Amman Again
4. Home Sweet Ramallah
5. Dead Sea Stroll
6. Arabian Idol
7. Bethlehem's Walls
8. Goons. Hired Goons.
9. An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
   

Chapter 6: Bombings, Weddings, and a Kidnapping

1. Suicide Bomb
2. Checkpoint Wedding
3. Disappeared
4. Osama the Commie
5. Shoot 'em Up
6. Zeitoun
7. Another Bombing
8. Days of Penitence
   

Chapter 7: Arafat's Funeral

1. Ramallah Ramadan
2. Rest in Peace, Abu Ammar
3. Holiday in Jayyous
4. Omar's Story
5. My Boss Decides to Run for President
   

Chapter 8: Running for President in a Nation without a Country

1. Announcement on the Run
2. Beaten in the Street
3. Christmas: Dire Straits in Bethlehem
4. Mass Destruction
5. New Year's in a Garden on the Moon
6. Shifting and Swifting
7. Election Day
   

Chapter 9: Holy Land Spring

1. Gunpoint
2. Winter Living
3. Eid al Adha
4. Ceasefire
5. Suicide Bomber's Family Shunned
6. Thuglife
7. Nablus in April
8. Passover
9. Bab al Shams
   

Chapter 10: The Grand Tour

1. Deep in Enemy Territory
2. Okies in the Promised Land
3. Rum Night
4. Civil Society's Unified Call
5. Tel Aviv with Nick
   

Chapter 11: The Gaza Disengagement

1. Disengagement Thoughts
2. Sultans of Swank
3. East Jerusalem Outrage
4. Hip Hop and a Grenade
5. Disengagement Fever
6. Israeli Musicians Discover Ramallah
7. What Ceasefire?
8. Drinking by the Sea in Gaza
   

Chapter 12: The Last Ramadan

1. Visa Laundering
2. Islamic Jihad vs. Hamas vs. Fatah
3. Gaza Holiday
4. Ahmed's Heart (Click to read an article about a courageous decision by a dying Palestinian boy's family)
5. Dinner with a Suicide Bomber's Family
6. Settler Logic
7. Leaving Ramallah
8. Sinai Reflections