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Feb.11.2010
Here's a whimsical video demponstrating that the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is a better place from which to observe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than a West Bank refugee camp or an Israeli military base. Seriously. And yet not.
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Feb.02.2010
Crime writer J. Sydney Jones has set up an interesting new blog called Scene of the Crime. He aims to interview authors about the impact on their writing of the location and also about the sense of place in their novels -- usually from far-flung countries. This week he features me on my Palestinian...
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Jan.21.2010
Everyone comes back to Jerusalem. I don’t know why, I really don’t.
It’s too hot. The people can be offhandedly mean, and they drive as though they want to kill you. It isn’t a very pretty place once you look close. Oh and, yes, sometimes it gets violent. With shocking self-obsession, it thinks the...
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Jan.07.2010
My “work” is to make the world a better place. The causes I pick are not about greening the environment, preventing global warming, or improving humane treatment of animals, but it is rather about people—and the most vulnerable among them. My first published novel, (there...
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Jan.03.2010
The last decade has been one of outrage piled upon outrage, from 9/11 to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on to Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami and the smart-ass bankers who thought they ruled the world they were in the process of destroying. On the first day of the new decade I was faced...
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Dec.27.2009
Welsh Icons ("an Encyclopedia and Gazetteer of Wales and all Things Welsh - A Cymrupedia if you like."...uh, "Cymru" being the Welsh word for Wales.) lists me among the "iconic" writers on its site. That puts me in the company of thriller king Ken Follett, sinister...
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Dec.20.2009
My latest dispatch on Global Post -- a week or so after it posted, because I've been in Italy and, well, the Middle East wasn't on my mind...I didn't miss the taste of humus too much either, not with all that saltimboca and gelato...
Palestinians are divided; Israelis too. Not a good basis for...
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Nov.26.2009
I went back to the spot where I killed my first man yesterday. I killed him four years ago. I return every few months. Each time I arrive, it’s so peaceful I can’t believe anyone really died. But, even though I’m a writer of crime fiction, someone really did. I walked across a dirt lot, puddled...
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Nov.22.2009
I was on the BBC World Service's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/03/000000_world_today.shtml">The World Today</a> chatting about my Palestinian crime novels today. Because of the nature of the show, I also was asked my opinions on Cairo's muezzins,...
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Nov.22.2009
By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost
JERUSALEM — Donald Bostrom, a freelance Swedish journalist who wrote an article this summer accusing Israeli officials of trading in Palestinian organs, came to Israel late last month to defend his piece at a conference on the media.
Neither Bostrom, who needed a...
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