Motro, Helen Schary

PERSONAL: Born in New York, NY; married; husband a cardiologist; children. Education: University of Chicago, B.A.; New York University, J.D., LL.M.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Other Press, 307 7th Ave., Ste. 1807, New York, NY 10001.

CAREER: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, teacher of law.

AWARDS, HONORS: Common Ground Award for Journalism in the Middle East.

WRITINGS:

Maneuvering between the Headlines: An American Lives through the Intifada, Other Press (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor of articles to periodicals and Web sites, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, and International Herald Tribune; Author of column for Jerusalem Post.

SIDELIGHTS: Helen Schary Motro is a lawyer who began writing during the Gulf War in 1991. Maneuvering between the Headlines: An American Lives through the Intifada is Motro's memoir of her life in Israel and her perspective on the conflict as an American-born wife and mother. She writes of the daily routines of her family, which includes her cardiologist husband and daughter, in relatively safe suburban Tel Aviv, but also of his brush with a terrorist bomb, avoided when he changed his plans. She notes that many of Israel's Jews and Palestinians live and work together peace-fully and profiles individuals who have taken brave steps to solidify that harmony and encourage coexistence. A Kirkus Reviews contributor wrote that Maneuvering between the Headlines provides "a compelling, up-close look at a conflict too often seen only in TV news bites and blaring headlines." A Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote that "the book records in detail the way in which violence has eroded Israel's civil society, whether wielded against it or in its support."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Motro, Helen Schary, Maneuvering between the Headlines: An American Lives through the Intifada, Other Press (New York, NY), 2005.

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2005, review of Maneuvering between the Headlines, p. 526.

Publishers Weekly, April 4, 2005, review of Maneuvering between the Headlines, p. 49.