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Mecca...The Heart of the MatterBarbara's blog ranges from Middle East issues to international gossip, and includes her opinions, commentaries, criticism and analysis on all social, political and cultural matters. In other words, Barbara gives her perspective on the mecca or center of the world today. She welcomes all comments--laudatory and scathing. Barbara Victor's blog MECCA... THE HEART OF THE MATTER returns today with a tribute to Barbara's friend and first American editor Larry Ashmead, who passed over the holiday weekend. Read it here: http://mecca.barbaravictor.com/ If you have something to add to the conversation, please comment by clicking on "Comments" at the end of the post! Barbara's Current ProjectsBarbara Victor's new book, entitled The Good Divorce, co-authored with celebrated divorce lawyer Raoul Felder, will be published in 2011 by St. Martin's Press. Barbara contributed an essay to Erica Jong's anthology, Best Sex I Ever Had, to be published by Harper Collins in February 2011. Barbara continues to do television and radio interviews in the United States, Germany, France and England. On October 8-10, Barbara will be teaching at the Woodhull Institute's Non-Fiction Writer's Retreat, an intensive weekend course held at the Woodhull Retreat Center, in Ancramdale, NY, in the beautiful Berkshire Mountain region. Participants in the Writer's Retreat will gain fundamental knowledge of op-ed pieces, features, book proposals and pitching ideas. |
Barbara Victor is a journalist who has covered the Middle East for most of her career. She worked for CBS television for fifteen years, and U.S. News and World Report, as well as Elle Magazine in the United States and France and Femme and Madame Figaro, also in France.
She was the first person to interview Moammar Ghadaffi after the American bombing of Libya in 1986, and has interviewed many major political figures in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia, Canada, and the Middle East.
Barbara Victor is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and is the author of five novels and seven non-fiction books.
She lives in New York City with her husband, Edward, and their three dogs, Cleo, Edith and Bartlett.
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