Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. A native New Yorker he moved to London in 1985 and spent many years covering conflicts and conflict resolution from Northern Ireland to Bosnia to Iraq for public radio. His life as a reporter led directly to writing books. He wrote his first, "Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq," following his experiences as an unembedded reporter in Kurdistan during the first phase of the war. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. A Kindle edition is now available. His journalism has won the highest honors on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award and Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His most recent book is Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews From the Ghetto led to Revolution and Renaissance. Michael Goldfarb can be reached at Michael-Goldfarb. You can listen to his recent radio work at https://soundcloud.com/michael-goldfarb-1