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Drew Hinshaw

Drew Hinshaw is a senior reporter with The Wall Street Journal who has reported from more than fifty countries for the paper since 2010. He travels widely, covering breaking news and reporting longer-form investigations. He was a part of a team of reporters whose coverage of China's rising nationalism was a 2021 Pulitzer international reporting finalist. His investigation into cargo ship crews abandoned at sea was a finalist for the Overseas Press Club's top prize for human interest journalism, as well as a Gerald Loeb Award feature finalist. The Society of Publishers in Asia gave Drew and his colleagues its public service journalism award for their reporting on the origins of Covid-19. His coverage of Liberia during its Ebola epidemic won the 2015 Deadline Club's Enterprise Reporting award. He is the co-author of "Bring Back Our Girls," an account of the rescue effort to free 276 teenage schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram, which was named the Overseas Press Club’s best nonfiction book on international affairs of 2021.
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in a May 17 speech, said new opportunities now exist to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and warmer relations with Arab states. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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Dozens of Countries Scramble to Identify More Than 150 Citizens Held Hostage in Gaza

Gershon Baskin thinks that Hamas could potentially release the women, children, sick, and elderly, as part of a continuing negotiation he and several other experienced mediators are attempting to advance, in return for the release of a group of Palestinian minors and women from the West Bank imprisoned in Israel.

By Drew Hinshaw, 2 yearsOctober 15, 2023 ago
The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Shalit from Hamas

The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Shalit from Hamas
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In 2006, Gilad Schalit was kidnapped by a group of Gaza militants. Decades of animosity and distrust thwarted any attempt at a prisoner exchange. THE NEGOTIATOR is the firsthand account of Gershon Baskin, who made it his mission to liberate Gilad Schalit. Baskin drew on his ties to Hamas to create a secret back channel and succeeded where official mediators had failed, paving the way for the deal that brought Gilad home.
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel & Palestine


In his latest book, In Pursuit of Peace in Israel & Palestine, Gershon Baskin reveals how relations in the Middle East are based on justified fear, influenced by lack of human contact and reinforced by continued violence that solidify patterns of thinking and behavior that negatively influence public policies.

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Freeing Gilad: The Secret Back Channel

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"Free Gilad" is the story of an unprecedented secret communication channel developed by Gershon Baskin developed that made a decisive contribution towards the release of Gilad Shalit.
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