More than 14 months after the release of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, it continues to stimulate debate and sales, despite the dark times in which we live (leaving me with mixed feelings about it all, to be honest). I’m thankful for all the support and readers across the globe where the book has become…
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Doomsday prepping goes mainstream
I’ve long been fascinated with people who push the boundaries of “acceptable” society. In the last year, I’ve been investigating the growth of the “doomsday prepper” movement for a feature story in one of Australia’s major magazines, Good Weekend (inserted weekly in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age with a readership of close to…
The Palestine Laboratory wins People’s Choice Award at 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
I was honoured to recently win the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, one of the leading writing prizes in Australia, for my book, The Palestine Laboratory. The Guardian reports: This year’s people’s choice award went to The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by…
Pan-Arab reading of the Palestine laboratory
Daraj Media is a a pan-Arab news service. Ahmed Al-Fakhrani, an Egyptian writer and novelist, reviews my book, The Palestine Laboratory. It’s a comprehensive and positive understanding of the research in my book. Read the whole review here in Arabic: هل تختبر إسرائيل الأسلحة الجديدة على الفلسطينيين ؟ – Daraj And an English translation: Is…
Teaching the Palestine lab to students
I continue to be overwhelmed with the global reach of my book, The Palestine Laboratory. Here’s one more example. Interdependent Study is a US-based podcast: Class is in session. Interdependent Study is a podcast about the learning and unlearning work for social justice and collective liberation. Interdependent Study is hosted by Damien Franze, an angry…
The Palestine Laboratory secures honourable mention in Moore Prize literary award
I’m excited to reveal that my book, The Palestine Laboratory, has received an honourable mention in the Moore Prize, an international literary and human rights award based in the UK. As the organisation states: Faced with a record number of high quality submissions and a remarkable shortlist, the Jury would like to recognise the other…
The Palestine Laboratory shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024
What an honour for my book, The Palestine Laboratory, to be shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024, one of Australia’s major writing prizes. The judges comments: Can power be measured by a state’s ability to weaponise the business of oppression? This is the timely question at the heart of independent journalist Antony Loewenstein’s…
“Don’t give up if people are attacking you”
During the recent Ubud Writer’s Festival in Bali, Indonesia, where I was a guest speaker, I was asked by the literary magazine, Kill Your Darlings, about what I wished I knew about being a writer back in the day: I’ve been a journalist for over twenty years, and if you write about political issues, works…
The Palestine Laboratory wins prestigious Walkleys Book Award of 2023
I’m excited to announce that my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is the winner of the Walkleys Book Award of 2023. It’s Australia’s leading journalism prize, the equivalent of the Pulitzers. In a time of such grief, violence and anger in the Middle East and beyond, I’m managing a range of emotions but thankful to the judging…
The Palestine Laboratory is short-listed for best book of the year at the Walkley Awards
Yesterday I was rapt to discover that my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is a short-list finalist for best book of the year in Australia’s leading journalism prize, The Walkley Awards. After being recently long-listed, amongst 9 titles, I’m happy that my years-long investigation is now a a serious contender with two other books. Independent journalism…