{"id":85,"date":"2006-03-24T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/bush-betrayal-now-available-in-arabic-in-beirut\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T16:03:22","slug":"bush-betrayal-now-available-in-arabic-in-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/bush-betrayal-now-available-in-arabic-in-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Betrayal now available in Arabic in Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call today from a friend who told me that the Arabic version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/140396727X\/ref=pd_cpt_gw_1\/103-5023217-4695063?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\">Bush Betrayal<\/a><\/strong> is now in the stores in Beirut.\u00a0 The translation deal was signed by St. Martin&#8217;s Press last May with the Arabic Scientific\u00a0Publishers in Lebanon. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen the translated book &#8211; or even the cover design.\u00a0\u00a0 I will post the cover design when I get it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the availability of this book in Arabic will oblige the Pentagon to pay extra bribes to Iraqi journalists to write pro-American stories.\u00a0 (The Bush administration, after initially condemning such <em>baksheesh<\/em>, recently announced that the payments would continue).<\/p>\n<p>I especially appreciated the heads-up\u00a0because my foreign sources for what is happening with my books are slim &#038; none &#8211; and, as Dan Rather likes to say, Slim just left town.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call today from a friend who told me that the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal is now in the stores in Beirut.\u00a0 The translation deal was signed by St. Martin&#8217;s Press last May with the Arabic Scientific\u00a0Publishers in Lebanon. \u00a0 I have not seen the translated book &#8211; or even the cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,659,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-85","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","9":"tag-bovard"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush Betrayal now available in Arabic in Beirut - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/bush-betrayal-now-available-in-arabic-in-beirut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bush Betrayal now available in Arabic in Beirut - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I got a call today from a friend who told me that the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal is now in the stores in Beirut.\u00a0 The translation deal was signed by St. Martin&#8217;s Press last May with the Arabic Scientific\u00a0Publishers in Lebanon. \u00a0 I have not seen the translated book &#8211; 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