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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.

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#METOO is Not for Everyone

When I lived in Paris and worked as a journalist, I had a weekly radio program called An American in Paris. No subject was off-limits. A news subject that caught my attention one day was about a young Black man who was dragged behind a pickup truck in Texas, horribly tortured until he died.  Shocked and furious, my reaction on the radio was to call for the death penalty. A position I never took be

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Goddess: Inside Madonna

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Absence of Pain: A Novel

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Coriander

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Misplaced Lives

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Friends, Lovers, Enemies

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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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