Award Winning Journalist & Author

Ghosts of a Holy War

Debuts October 1, 2024

"If you are going to read one book to help you understand the current Middle East tragedy, this is it." - Yossi Klein Halevi

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About Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer. From 2013 to 2023 she was based in Israel, where she reported for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Economist, New York Review of Books, and Foreign Policy. She has also reported from Morocco, Nepal, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, and the United States. Yardena previously worked at NBC News, including stints at The Today Show, Nightly News, and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, earned an Emmy nomination in 2013, and an RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. Ghosts of a Holy War is Yardena's first book.

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"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

ABOUT GHOSTS OF A HOLY WAR

GHOSTS OF A HOLY WAR

The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

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.

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