Award Winning Journalist & Bestselling Author
Ghosts of a Holy War
Available in hardcover, ebook & audiobook
"If you are going to read one book to help you understand the current Middle East tragedy, this is it." - Yossi Klein Halevi, author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
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About Yardena Schwartz
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer who was based in Israel for a decade until 2023. Her reporting has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, TIME, National Geographic, and Foreign Policy. Yardena previously worked at NBC News and MSNBC. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and the RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. Yardena now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and children. Ghosts of a Holy War is her first book.

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The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Union Square & Co. (October 1, 2024)
An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to devastate.