Paradise Lost: Kibbutz Metzer and Qaffin Mean Streets: The Alleyways of Tul Karm The Battle for Biddo Borderline: Khirbet Jubara Middle Israel: Kochav Ya'ir In the Loop: Qalqilya and Alfei Menashe Beyond the Pale: Karmei Tzur The Long Way Home: The Palestinian Refugees in the Camps of the West Bank East Meets West: Baqa al-Gharbiya (Baqa West) and Baqa al-Sharqiya (Baqa East) The Holy Seam: Jerusalem The Big Prison: Gaza Out of the Ghetto: Ramallah and Tel Aviv
ISABEL KERSHNER is Senior Editor, Middle East, The Jerusalem Report and lives in Jerusalem. She has written for The New Republic and provided commentary on Middle East affairs on radio, including the BBC.
ISABEL KERSHNER is an award winning journalist and Senior Editor, Middle East, of The Jerusalem Report and lives in Jerusalem. She has written for The New Republic and provided commentary on Middle East affairs on radio, including the BBC.
'Isabel Kershner turns a complicated issue into a gripping story without sacrificing the nuances or the complexities. Barrier is an elegantly written and eloquent page turner.' - Bob Simon, 60 Minutes Correspondent 'Isabel Kershner has provided a distinctly human perspective on the Israeli security barrier. She weaves a compelling story, wonderfully written and told largely through the eyes of individual Israelis and Palestinians. But this is more than only the story of the barrier and how it is seen; it is also an explanation of the conflict and the pain it continues to impose on both sides. The Israeli quest for security and acceptance and the Palestinian yearning for dignity and freedom emerge unmistakably in this very moving book.' - Dennis Ross, Chief Middle East peace negotiator for Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Author of The Missing Peace 'Isabel Kershner's book is not about the concrete and wire fences; it is about those who created them, the bombers as well as the mighty occupiers; but most importantly, it is about those victimized by its unwelcome and destructive presence. We hear their voices and feel their pain. More than that, Kershner's story-telling digs deeper into the strategic implications making her book useful to experts as well as all concerned with the Middle East.' - Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah 'Barrier is superb. Extraordinarily balanced and perceptive, it is a sympathetic but unflinchingly honest portrayal of two peoples irreversibly entangled in their own historic tragedies. Veteran journalist Isabel Kershner portrays their conflict from the bottom up - through the eyes and voices of Palestinians and Israelis on both sides of the barrier. If you can only read one book about this conflict this is it: It is brilliant and unique.' - Samuel Lewis, U.S. Ambassador to Israel under Presidents Carter and Reagan, and Former President, United States Institute of Peace 'Jerusalem Report editor Kershner travels the 375-mile length of the barrier separating the Palestinians of the West Bank from their Israeli neighbours, reporting on what she finds along the way, little of it cause for hope. 'Fences have so far not made for good neighbours,' Kershner concludes. A revealing report.' - Kirkus Review 'readable, compassionate and thoroughly fair...she talks to victims and activists from both sides of the line, bringing lives and landscape vividly to life at the same time as putting the wall in its political context.' - The Economist '..a fascinating and insightful account of the human, political and military stories behind the construction of what will likely end up being the most costly infrastructure project in Israel's history. - David Green, The Jerusalem Report
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