Michael Goldfarb is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He has written for The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post but is best known for his work in public radio. Throughout the 1990′s, as NPR’s London Correspondent and then Bureau Chief, he covered conflicts and conflict resolution from Northern Ireland to Bosnia to Iraq for National Public Radio

At the beginning of 1999, Goldfarb left NPR and from 2000 through mid 2005, he made documentaries for the public radio program Inside Out. One of these, Ahmad’s War: Inside Out, became the basis for his first book, Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. Reporting another award-winning documentary, British Jihad: Inside Out, provided the inspiration for his book, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.

His work has been given the highest honors on both sides of the Atlantic including the DuPont-Columbia Award and Overseas Press Club’s Lowell Thomas Award in America and the Sony Gold award in Britain. He has also been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Michael Goldfarb continues to balance a three-part career writing books, doing radio work for the BBC and daily journalism for Globalpost.com Excerpts from his work in progress, History in The Time of Forgetting, are being published at his blog on this website.