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Patrick Kingsley

Patrick Kingsley is the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, covering Israel and the occupied territories. Patrick has reported from more than 40 countries, and is the author of two books, “The New Odyssey,” about the European refugee crisis, and “How To Be Danish,” an exploration of contemporary Danish culture. He is a former foreign reporter of the year at the British Journalism Awards, and has lectured at the universities of Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. Kingsley joined The New York Times in 2017, first as the paper’s acting Turkey bureau chief, and then as a roving Europe correspondent, focusing on longer-term reporting projects. Mr. Kingsley previously worked for The Guardian for seven years, reporting from across the Middle East and Europe. He was based first in Cairo, where he was The Guardian’s Egypt correspondent, and then Istanbul, where he worked as the paper’s migration correspondent. With a colleague, he conducted the last interview of the Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, before his ouster in 2013. Mr. Kingsley was born in London in June 1989. He has a first-class degree in English Literature from Cambridge University, and a diploma in journalism from Britain’s National Council for the Training of Journalists. He has won several awards, including the Frontline Award for Print Journalism for his reporting on rights abuses by the Egyptian military.
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For Years, Two Men Shuttled Messages Between Israel and Hamas. No Longer.

Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist, and Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas official, maintained a secret back channel between Gaza and Israel. Then Oct. 7 happened.

By Patrick Kingsley, 2 yearsNovember 19, 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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