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Sandy recently moved from Berkeley to Los Angeles, where he took a position as Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. He feels lucky to have great colleagues and is already enjoying teaching.

Throughout May, Sandy will be traveling across the U.S. to give lectures and readings in a 12-city tour linked to the founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. (For a schedule, go to Readings and Other Events ). “The 60th anniversary is a moment for us to look deeply at the history of both sides,” he said. “A lot of us grew up knowing the history of only one side - what I call the ‘Leon Uris/Exodus’ version of history, of the heroic birth of Israel out of the Holocaust. Far fewer people know that the War of 1948, which the Israelis “The War of Independence, is labeled the Nakba, or Catastrophe, by Palestinians. I believe it’s not possible to understand what’s happening in the region now without understanding the depth of history and trauma for both sides.”

Sandy is also writing numerous articles linked to the anniversary; you can check back here periodically for updates once the articles are published.

Ongoing projects include Working launched in January 2007 as a regular feature on Marketplace, public radio’s daily show about business and economics. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic 1974 book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, the series consists of intimate, sound-rich portraits of workers in the global economy. Sandy is also faculty advisor and editor for the FRONTLINE/World Fellowship program , designed to nurture new voices in international reporting and widen the spectrum of stories available to the public, using this award-winning PBS Web site as a publishing platform for outstanding work from a new generation of journalists.