About Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor is a British author and journalist based in Budapest, Hungary. His study of the United Nations' failure to prevent genocide, Complicity With Evil, is published by Yale University Press. He writes for numerous publications including The Times (of London), The New York Times , Literary Review and The Jewish Quarterly, and reviews crime fiction and thrillers for the Economist. His latest non-fiction book, City of Oranges, is published by WW Norton, and recounts the true life stories of six families in Jaffa, three Jewish and three Arab. City of Oranges was an editor's choice in The New York Times, book of the week in The Guardian and was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Literary prize. It even got a good review in Ash-Sharq al-Awsat. So Steven Spielberg, if you are reading this, get in touch.

Jaffa’s Palestinian Exiles

Jaffa’s Palestinian Exiles
By Adam LeBor November 26, 2007

Let’s start with a confession. At my Jewish school in north London we did not much like the Israeli pupils. They wore dubonim (padded khaki army jackets) and sand-colored canvas boots. They strutted around and spoke to each other in … Read More