The Human Scale: A Conversation with Lawrence Wright | WorldNow with Jim Falk

May 6, 2025 – “The Human Scale” tells a story of an Israeli cop and a Palestinian-American FBI agent who join forces to solve the murder of an Israeli police chief in the West Bank – set against the backdrop of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larence Wright joins us on WorldNow to discuss how his novel, which concludes on October 8th, 2023, underscores the human cost of the longstanding conflict.

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Featuring:

Lawrence Wright: A staff writer at The New Yorker, Wright has spent decades reporting from the Middle East as a journalist, playwright, and novelist. He won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, his acclaimed nonfiction account of the rise of Al-Qaeda. Read more about Wright here.

Jim Falk: President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, Global Santa Fe Program Chair, host of “WorldNow with Jim Falk”

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