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Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. The French magazine L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.” As a journalist, Matt covered the Middle East for over a decade for Time, The Scotsman and Newsweek. He was born in Newport, Wales, in 1967 and studied at Oxford University and the University of Maryland. His first Soho novel, THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM, won the Crime Writers Association's New Blood Dagger. The Omar Yussef series continues with A GRAVE IN GAZA in 2008 and THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET in Feb. 2009.

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    My Palestinian crime novels, Ethiopian marathoners and Michael Jackson’s glove on the BBC

    I was on the BBC World Service’s The World Today chatting about my Palestinian crime novels today. Because of the nature of the show, I also was asked my opinions on Cairo’s muezzins, Ethiopian distance running and the value of Michael Jackson’s rhinestone-encrusted white glove (you remember, the one he wore at the Motown Awards the first time he ever did the moonwalk). Haven’t you always wanted to know what I thought about such issues? Well, there are some well-informed characters on the show too, so it’s worth a listen.

    Posted on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm

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