Bio

Barbara Victor, a journalist who has covered the Middle East for most of her career, has interviewed many of the major heads of state in that area of the world, including Yasser Arafat; King Hassan; Yitzak Rabin; Ariel Sharon and King Hussein.

Included in her interviews was the first one with Moammar Ghadaffi in November 1986 after the American bombardment of Tripoli. (cover story for U.S. News and World Report).

Her articles, editorials and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Life Magazine, Washington Post, Newark Star Ledger, Newsday, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Journal de Dimanche, Elle, Femme, Madame Figaro, Vanity Fair and Politique Internationale.

Among those subjects Ms. Victor has interviewed are: Caroline Kennedy; President Carlos Saśl Menem of Argentina; American Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton; and Vice Presidents Dan Quayle and Al Gore.

Victor also interviewed President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, General Khin Nyunt of Myanmar, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Norman Mailer, Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani and many others.

Ms. Victor worked for CBS television for fifteen years, and covered the Middle East. After the Lebanon War in 1985, she worked for US News & World Report. She was also a Contributing Editor to ELLE USA from 1988-1990, Femme Magazine in France from 1990-1997 and Madame Figaro from 1997 until 2001.

The author of five novels, Absence of Pain, Misplaced Lives, Friends, Lovers, Enemies, Coriander and Reckless. Ms. Victor has been translated into more than twenty-five languages in thirty foreign markets.

Her non-fiction books are Terrorism, an account of the Lebanon War from 1975-1982; A Voice of Reason: Hanan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East, a biography of Hanan Ashrawi, which was nominated for the 1995 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; and Army of Roses, a study of Palestinian women suicide bombers. A documentary film on that same subject written and directed by Ms. Victor has aired first on TF-1 and subsequently on television stations throughout Europe.

Ms. Victor's most recent book, The Last Crusade, concerning the alliance between American Evangelical Christians and the Jewish community in the United States and Israel, was published in France in September 2004 by Editions Plon. It was published in England by Constable Robinson in May 2005, and throughout Europe in the Fall of 2005.

A frequent lecturer on women's issues as well as on the Middle East, Ms. Victor lives in New York with her husband and two dogs.