Matt Beynon Rees

Matt Beynon Rees (born 1967 in Newport , Wales ) is a Welsh journalist and writer .

Life

Rees studied English literature at the University of Oxford and journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park . He then lived in New York for five years before moving to Jerusalem in 1996 , where he initially wrote for The Scotsman and Newsweek . From 2000 to 2006 he headed the Jerusalem office of Time magazine , for which he continues to write.

In 2008 he published his first detective novel with the Palestinian teacher Omar Yussef. The Bethlehem Traitor won the New Blood Dagger Award .

Rees speaks u. a. Arabic and Hebrew and lives in Luxembourg.

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

• Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East . Free Press, 2004

Novels

• The Traitor of Bethlehem: Omar Yussef's First Fall ( The Collaborator of Bethlehem. Omar Yussef Mysteries) . 2007
• A grave in Gaza: Omar Yussef's second fall ( A Grave in Gaza. Omar Yussef Mysteries) . 2008
• The dead of Nablus: Omar Yussef's third case ( The Samaritan's Secret. Omar Yussef Mysteries) . 2009
• The Brooklyn Assassin: Omar Yussef's Fourth Case ( The Fourth Assassin. Omar Yussef Mysteries) . 2010
• Mozart's last aria ( Mozart's Last Aria ). 2011
• Signed in blood ( A Name in Blood ) (on the life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ). 2013
• The Damascus Connection (The Damascus Threat). 2016
• China Strike: An ICE Thriller. 2017

Web links

• official website
• "Neither Hamas nor Fatah represent the Palestinians" . Eren Güvercin in conversation with the author Matt Beynon Rees
• Matt Beynon Rees at Bücherserien.de

Individual evidence

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