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Feb.24.2013
The voodoo priest tucked up his white dhoti and knelt on a cloth spread across the dirt in front of the low altar he’d pieced together against the hut wall. Shoulders hunched forward, he chanted prayers while burning incense...
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Aug.23.2011
Last Tuesday night at our bible study the room was on fire. We have been reading Acts and for each one of us all that we can say is "it's good." And it is. In Acts 9 - Saul is converted. Once converted his name changes from Saul to Paul. I would say look it up; however, I know how I am and...
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May.12.2011
I've written this story as an immediate response to the murder and arrest of anti-government demonstrators all over Syria--and elsewhere in the Arab world. It’s a work of fiction based on the characters in my series of Palestinian crime novels. But real people are still being killed.
DAMASCUS...
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Jun.17.2010
The company you keep can put the culture around you in a new light, let you see it as you haven’t before.That’s true when I travel to different countries and discover that readers in Germany have a particular take on my Palestinian crime novels which differs from the way they look to Americans, for...
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Dec.07.2009
Like an old Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movie I was off on the road to... well Corning NY, this last Saturday, which of course coincided with the first snow of the winter. While I did not meet Dorothy Lamour (am I sounding old) along the way, I did get to meet some great people who'd I previously...
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May.03.2009
The most original voice in Hebrew fiction is that of Alon Hilu. His first novel “Death of a Monk” took a blood libel against the Jews of Damascus in 1840 and offered a startling alternative perspective on how the murder at the heart of the scandal might have taken place. The second of his novels “...
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