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At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Dehaisha Refugee Camp outside the UN school where my fictional sleuth Omar Yussef teaches.

At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Dehaisha Refugee Camp and we’re talking about Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader.  

At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Beit Jala, looking across the deep wadi at Jerusalem and talking about the gunbattles that used to take place there.

Nablus is my favorite Palestinian town. Yet when I set my third novel The Samaritan’s Secret in Nablus, I discovered many Westerners had never heard of it. Here are some of the locations I used for the book.

The Jerusalem Post highlights the investigation by my new alternative news venture DeltaFourth into Yasser Arafat’s murder. JPost writer Rachel Marder interviews me about The Murder of Yasser Arafat and writes that Matthew Kalman and I have a “compelling explanation [for] the 75-year-old leader’s death near Paris in November 2004 based on years of reporting [...]

This podcast is about my new alternative news project DeltaFourth. I read from THE MURDER OF YASSER ARAFAT, the first explosive ebook from DeltaFourth. The ebook reveals how Yasser Arafat was murdered by people in his inner circle. It’s the prototype for DeltaFourth’s forthcoming series of long-form journalistic ebooks — stunning breaking news written in [...]

Israel tv highlights THE MURDER OF YASSER ARAFAT in this interview. I wrote the book with Matthew Kalman for our alternative news venture DeltaFourth.

The Murder of Yasser Arafat, the first book from my new alternative journalism venture DeltaFourth, is “racy and provocative,” according to a write-up in The Times of Israel.  Elhanan Miller, the news site’s Arab affairs correspondent, calls the book “quite the page turner.” Miller also picks up on something very notable about our treatment of [...]

Arafat was murdered by his own people, or as my Danish fans say Arafat blev myrdet af sine egne folk. Danish correspondent Hanne Foighel interviews Matt for Denmark radio about THE MURDER OF YASSER ARAFAT. (Just in case you didn’t get this yet, it’s in Danish…) To read more about it in English go to [...]

Yasser Arafat died in France, so I’m delighted that Le Parisien’s wonderful chef de service Philippe Lemaire picked up on The Murder of Yasser Arafat, the first book from my new alternative news venture DeltaFourth. Philippe also picks up on our new style of writing: “Leur investigation, menée entre Ramallah, Gaza, Bethlehem et Jerusalem, est [...]