James Buchan

A foot in both camps

As a five-year-old in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem in the 1950s, Kai Bird overheard an elderly American heiress offering $1 million to anyone who could solve the Arab-Israeli conflict.

issue 07 August 2010

  • Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

    Kai Bird

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 424

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