David Pratt has been a foreign correspondent and photojournalist specialising in the Middle East, Arab and Islamic world for more than twenty years. He has worked for Reuters, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), and is a regular contributor to the BBC on conflict and foreign affairs issues. During an adventurous career, Pratt has covered wars across the Middle East and Africa, including Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Congo, Sudan and Somalia, and has twice been a finalist in the Amnesty International Media Awards for his reporting on human rights issues. In Afghanistan in 1989 he had the dubious pleasure of having tea and a chat with Osama bin Laden during a lull in fighting around the city of Jalalabad. David Pratt is currently the Foreign Editor of the Sunday Herald.
" ...drawn from 20 years of covering the Israel-Palestine conflict
from both sides of the "Green Line,"... largely described from the
perspective of his on-the-ground reportorial eye, but necessary
political background is included."-- "Book News, Inc."
"David Pratt, an experienced journalist covering the Middle East,
Afghanistan, the Balkans, and other war zones, skillfully combines
his own experience reporting on the second Intifada...with
background on Israeli independence in 1948, the first intifada ...,
and the disappointing negotiations of the 1990s. His picture of the
brutal human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli army and
occupation includes the disintegration of Palestinian economic and
social organization and the political irresponsibility of their
leaders. .... A(n) essential portrayal of the ongoing human
tragedy."-- "Library Journal"
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