Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
 

Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide

by Jeffrey Goldberg

They met in 1990 during the first Palestinian uprising—one was an American Jew who served as a prison guard in the largest prison in Israel, the other, his prisoner, Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue there that grew into a remarkable friendship—and now a remarkable book. It is a book that confronts head-on the issues dividing the... (read more)

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An American journalist's account of his time serving in the Israili army as a prison guard, and of his return to Israel and Pakistan at a later time to meet the men who were his fellow guards and prisoners. Can former enemies be friends? Can you reach across boundaries to know and understand the person behind the cultural mask? These are questions author Jeffrey Goldberg explores. The book for me was helpful to my understanding of that part of the Mid-East. Because Goldberg is a journalist,...

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