Sandy Tolan is author of "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East," and associate professor of journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC.

Sandy Tolan's Salon stories

Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 03:15 PDT

Iran: "The guest is God's friend"

The detention of journalist Iason Athanasiadis is a legal abomination -- and a breach of Iranian hospitality
Saturday, Jul 21, 2007 06:46 PDT

When Barry passes Hank

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig needs to be there when Barry Bonds makes home run history -- and rise above the race issues that color Bonds in the public eye.
Monday, Jun 4, 2007 03:50 PDT

Rethinking Israel's David-and-Goliath past

Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.
Tuesday, Jul 11, 2006 04:44 PDT

The catastrophe that never ends

As 1.5 million Gazans suffer for one Israeli, Palestinians remember five July days in 1948 when they lost everything -- and the world didn't care.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 20:36 PDT

No to Israeli unilateralism

Far from bringing stability, Ehud Olmert's plan to draw Israel's final borders would destroy the Palestinian dream of self-determination and ignite more conflict.
Monday, May 8, 2006 04:38 PDT

"The Lemon Tree"

In the summer of 1967 three Arab men return to their birthplace of Ramla and find themselves in an unrecognizable homeland.

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