“With compassion and rare insight, Charles Glass captures the texture and human reality of a fascinating region of the world that we do not begin to know. He provides the kind of understanding that extends far beyond the Levant, which he portrays with such sensitivity and grace.” —Noam Chomsky
“A literary and spiritual ramble through the countries of the Levant. . . . Glass’s account of two months’ captivity and his escape bring to an exciting conclusion this engrossing, informative, unusual travel book.” —Publishers Weekly
“A travel book in the classic style, discursive, inquiring, agreeable, and set in places well off the tourist track, yet familiar to anyone whose imagination has been stirred by tales of the Levant, or by travels around that pleasant rim of the Mediterranean.” —John Bulloch, The Independent
“Mr. Glass is a good travel writer, with lively curiosity, a fine sense of humor, a gift for getting people to talk and a capacity for taking them as he finds them. . . . The author’s good humor and cheerfulness, even under extremely trying circumstances, are impressive and, in a measure, infectious.” —The New York Times Book Review
“I am a lifetime admirer of T.E. Lawrence, but I can’t help but remark what a great book his Seven Pillars of Wisdom would have been had he been as gifted a writer as Charles Glass.” —Miles Copeland, The Evening Standard
“One values Tribes with Flags. . . . for its style and color, its success in evoking the Levantine atmosphere.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Thoroughly enlightening.” —New York Newsday