Barbara Victor, a former Middle East specialist for the U.S. State Department, has worked in television and radio for many years.
Currently a freelance journalist, she has interviewed such Middle Eastern leaders as Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Colonel Muammaer Quaddafi and Abu Lyad (sic) of the PLO. She lives in Paris.
Penguin has published her novels Lovers and Enemies (later republished as Friends, Lovers, Enemies), Absence of Pain and Misplaced Lives.
Her articles, editorials and book reviews have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Life Magazine, Washington Post, Newark Star Ledger, Newsday, New York Times, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Journal de Dimanche, Elle, Femme, Madame Figaro, Vanity Fair and Politique Internationale.
Victor’s non-fiction books are Terrorism, an account of the Lebanon War from l975-l982, A Voice of Reason, Hanan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East, a biography of Hanan Ashrawi, which was nominated for the l995 Pulitzer Prize, Getting Away With Murder, a study of domestic violence in the United States, The Lady, a biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Le Matignon de Jospin, an inside look at the workings of the French government, Goddess, a biography of Madonna, Army of Roses, a study of Palestinian women suicide bombers, The Last Crusade, an expose of the Christian Right and American politics as well as the alliance and support the Evangelical Christians have with Israel as well as the Jewish community in the United States.
Victor’s works of fiction include Absence of Pain, Misplaced Lives, Friends, Lovers, Enemies, Coriander, and Reckless.
