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Tomorrow there will be apricots : an Australian diplomat in the Arab world / Robert Bowker ; foreword by John McCarthy AO.

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ISBN 9781922850423
Author Bowker, Robert (author)
Title Tomorrow there will be apricots : an Australian diplomat in the Arab world / Robert Bowker ; foreword by John McCarthy AO.
Portion of title Australian diplomat in the Arab world
Publisher and/or associated date/s [Sebastopol, Victoria] : Shawline Publishing Group, 2022.
©2022.
Description xxiii, 307 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary After 50 years as an Australian diplomat, UN official, intelligence analyst, academic and company director working in and on the Middle East, Bob Bowker enjoys unique insights into the challenges, professional and personal, of representing Australia in the Arab world. In this occasionally light-hearted professional memoir, revealing something of the person behind the diplomat, he sets out his views and reflections on major Middle East issues and into what makes diplomacy in the Arab world effective. He also captures the complexity, the drama, the ambiguity and sometimes the absurdity of certain situations he faced as an Australian ambassador in the Arab world. -A sacked local staff member in Syria was found to be an informer for the secret police. -Overnight, a shipload of Australian sheep became Bulgarian -A judge in Sudan successfully prosecuted his own case in a murder trial. -As demonstrators hurled stones and bottles toward his office, women in his microenterprise program in Gaza sold soft drinks to the crowd.
Subjects Bowker, Robert
Diplomatic and consular service, Syria
Ambassadors -- Australia
Diplomats -- Australia -- Biography
Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Australia
Syria -- Foreign relations -- Australia
Arab countries
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons McCarthy, John, (Ambassador), 1942- (writer of foreword)
Call number 2023.106
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