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Israel: Novelist Writes From Palestinian Perspective

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Israel, Palestine, Citizen Media, Ethnicity & Race, International Relations, Literature, War & Conflict

Matt Beynon Rees is a Jerusalem-based crime novelist whose third book, The Samaritan's Secret, has just been published to positive reviews. His protagonist is the Palestinian school teacher and amateur sleuth, Omar Yussef. Rees explains [1]: “I think of my novels as humanist, filtering out the politics that makes people see the Palestinians as stereotypes (either of terrorists or victims).”