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Mar.22.2009
At the Jerusalem Book Week, I gave a talk about how I came to write my Palestinian crime series. With the discussion afterward, it ends up being over an hour long, including some talk about crime novels, the Middle East, politics and my personal history. Watch it here.
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Mar.20.2009
On Global Post, I report on the fairly crazy mess (even by Middle East standards) in which both Israeli and Palestinian politics find themselves just now.
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Mar.20.2009
Guest blogging on A Book Blogger's Diary, I write about why my publishers around the world like to have a new title for the same book in almost every country...Choosing one is almost as hard as writing the book itself... Almost.
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Mar.20.2009
In its listing of recommended books new to paperback, The New York Times features the second of my Palestinian crime novels A GRAVE IN GAZA, just out in softcover from Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (The UK paperback, titled THE SALADIN MURDERS, has been out in small format for a while already...
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Mar.13.2009
Here’s a short article about the Palestinian refugee camp Balata which is located on the outskirts of Nablus, one of the oldest cities in Palestine. This article will give you a simple picture of what kind of life people in this camp live.
In Balata there are told to be around 25.000 people living...
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Mar.08.2009
Historic World War I cemeteries badly damaged in recent attacks. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost
In Gaza, violence is so prevalent, even death doesn’t put you beyond its reach. Nor does a grave protect you from further insult to your dignity.
The fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas gunmen at...
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Mar.05.2009
In popular blog Bookslut, Colleen Mondor has a terrific review of a series of books set overseas, giving it a particular slant toward young readers. She designates my new Palestinian crime novel, THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET, her "cool read" of the week. You can see other reviews by Colleen...
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Mar.05.2009
When I'm not writing crime novels, this is what I have to put up with
By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostPublished: March 4, 2009 15:25 ET
RAMALLAH — The further back you are in a motorcade, the more bemused the expression on the faces of the pedestrians watching you speed by. When I passed them, the...
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Mar.03.2009
People who don't know any better sometimes tell me that I'm a good writer and they'd like to see me write a "real novel," instead of my Palestinian crime novels. Usually I tell them Raymond Chandler once wrote that there are just as many bad "real" literary novels written as bad...
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Feb.28.2009
A foreign correspondent builds memories out of blood and corpses. Often they turn to nightmares.
While working on my second Palestinian crime novel, <a href="http://www.mattbeynonrees.com/gaza.htm">A Grave in Gaza</a>, I sometimes wept as I wrote. I used to think that meant I...
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