FIRST-PERSON & COMMENTARY

The Crustacean (January 2012)

I vowed not to write another Bethlehem Christmas story (December 24, 2009)

Is One of the Lost Tribes the Taliban? (April 1, 2007)

In the midst of the Iraq war – and always on the phone (May 27, 2003)

Afghan Salang Pass: Enter at your own risk (July 3, 2002)

Our reporter stumbles through a shrouded world (January 10, 2002)

BOOK REVIEWS

The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn (October 8, 2011)

Fiction/Tom Sawyer on the Tigris (February 17, 2011)

Israeli fiction / Layers of longing (April 4, 2010)
Up and coming author Eshkol Nevo has written a quintessentially Israeli novel that impressively offers up characters and emotional situations that resonate with universal appeal.

Between privilege and alienation (July 2, 2008)

Baghdad Dispatches: A first-time war correspondent explains what she risked to cover a dangerous story. (February 19, 2006)

Fertile soil for terrorism (January 23, 2003)