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Tolan, Sandy
PERSONAL:
Male.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Berkeley, CA. Office—Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, North Gate Hall, Berkeley, CA E-mail—[email&#;protected].
CAREER:
Homelands Productions, Tucson, AZ, cofounder, documentary film producer, —; University of California at Berkeley, School of Journalism, director of the International Reporting Project, —.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, ; three Overseas Press Club awards; the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton; three Robert F. Kennedy awards for reporting on the disadvantaged; the Harry Chapin World Hunger Year award; a United Nations Gold Medal award.
WRITINGS:
Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-five Years Later, Free Press (New York, NY),
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Bloomsbury Publishers (New York, NY),
Contributor to various periodicals, including the New York Times, Audubon, Nation, and the Los Angeles Times.
Producer of The
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Sandy Tolan
In a sitting room in a wealthy neighborhood of Amman, the Jordanian capital, three Sri Lankan maids – Mala, Manike, and Coomari – sit on plump couches, sipping sweet Arabic tea. Madame Shama is serving, for a change – and translating from the housemaids’ acquired Arabic. The women are here to explain why they’ve traveled thousands of miles to work for a hundred dollars a month. In a word: family.
“I love them so much and I was so desperate to make anything possible for them to live better and eat better and learn better,” says Coomari. “And I thought, it’s only two years. Maybe it will be worth it.”
By almost any measure, the housemaids’ salaries are tiny – some as little as 30 cents an hour, plus room and board, for hour days of cooking and cleaning. Yet these women have been able to save for new homes in their villages. Their income now makes up the largest share of Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange. And as services that used to be
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Sandy Tolan
Praise for The Lemon Tree
At a time when peace seems remote and darkness deepens, this lucid, humane, hopeful book shines like a ray of light
The Times
A superb, sustained piece of narrative non-fiction
The Sunday Times
Extraordinary Tolan's narrative provides a much needed human dimension to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a highly readable and evocative history
Washington Post
At a time when peace seems remote and darkness deepens, this lucid, humane, hopeful book shines like a ray of light
The Times
A superb, sustained piece of narrative non-fiction
The Sunday Times
Extraordinary Tolan's narrative provides a much needed human dimension to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a highly readable and evocative history
Washington Post
At a time when peace seems remote and darkness deepens, this lucid, humane, hopeful book shines like a ray of light
The Times
A superb, sustained piece of narrative non-fiction
The Sunday Times