Antho­ny David has writ­ten eight books, includ­ing the award-win­ning Once Upon a Coun­try: A Pales­tin­ian Life, the biog­ra­phy of the Pales­tin­ian leader Sari Nus­seibeh. An Amer­i­can cur­rent­ly liv­ing in Jerusalem, he holds a PhD in Euro­pean His­to­ry from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chicago.