SUMMARY
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Fourteen years experience as an editor and writer for online and print periodicals
Editor and writer of four books since 1997, with fifth publication to be completed in 2008
Strong article acquisition and development skills in Middle Eastern politics and American culture |
CURRENT
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Editor, allvoices.com
New book about Israeli politics forthcoming from Akashic Books
Editorial Consultant, AK Press
Contributing Editor, WireTap magazine
Media Editor, Zeek |
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
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Tikkun Magazine, Berkeley, CA 2004-2007
www.tikkun.org
Managing Editor Print and Online
PRINT
- Magazine feature content acquisitions
- Israel/Palestine department editor
- Culture department editor: books, film and music
- Responsible for redesign of print edition
- Production supervisor
- Distribution supervisor
- Contributing writer and columnist
ONLINE
- Website editor, Tikkun.org
- Responsible for redesign of Tikkun.org website
- Established a fee-based online archive for Tikkun back issues 1993-2007
San Francisco Bay Guardian ,San Francisco 2000--2004
www.sfbg.com
Contributing Writer
- Feature writer
- Book reviewer
- Travel columnist
- Weekly calendar contributor
Asphodel LTD/Schematic Music Company,San Francisco 2002--2004
www.asphodel.com
Label Coordinator
- International marketing supervisor: Europe & North America
- International distribution supervisor: Europe, North America, Australia & Japan
- Production and release scheduling supervisor
- Compilation licensing supervisor
- Artists and repertoire curatorial assistant
Punk Planet Magazine, Chicago, IL 1997-2004
www.punkplanet.com
Associate Editor; Books Editor
- Features acquisition and editing
- Interviews
- Book reviews
- Contributing writer, columnist
Bad Subjects: Political Education For Everyday Life, Berkeley, CA 1994-Present
www.eserver.org/bs
Editorial Board Member
- Co-Director 1998-2000; 2002-2004
- Reviews editor 1999-2004
- Bad Subjects is the oldest online publication in the world
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BOOKS
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Israel Versus Utopia: The Left and the Middle Eastern Conflict
- Forthcoming from Akashic Books, NY, 2008
Anti-Capitalist Politics, Forthcoming 2008
- Turkish translation of The Anti-Capitalism Reader
- Plan B Books, Istanbul, Turkey
Collective Action: A Bad Subjects Anthology, 2004
- Selected Bad Subjects essays, 1996-2004
- Co-edited with Megan Shaw Prelinger
- Pluto Press, London, UK
The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition, 2002
- Edited collection of writings on the new anti-market politics featuring Naomi Klein, Doug Henwood, Ali Abunimah and Annalee Newitz alongside interviews with Thomas Frank, Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Slavoj Zizek
- Akashic Books, NY
Jerusalem Calling: A Homeless Conscience in a Post-Everything World, 2002
- Essays on religion in America, the post-Cold War left, the political economy of independent music, and my family’s role in the establishment of the state of Israel
- Akashic Books, NY
Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, 1997
- Selected essays from the first four years of Bad Subjects, 1993-1997
- Co-edited with Annalee Newitz and Charlie Bertsch
- NYU Press, NY
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| FREELANCE BOOK EDITING |
Cyberarts, Digital Musics chapter , 2002-2006 editions
Hatje Kantz Verlag, Ostfilden, Germany
News Dissector, Danny Schechter, 2001
Akashic Books, NY |
AWARDS & CITATIONS
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Utne award, Spiritual Coverage, Tikkun magazine, 2006
"Best of 2002" Publisher's Weekly, 2002
My first essay collection, Jerusalem Calling was selected as one of the "Best Of" books of 2002 by Publisher's Weekly.
Utne award, Cultural/Social Coverage, Punk Planet, 2002
Utne award, General Excellence ('Zines), Punk Planet, 2000
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LANGUAGE SKILLS
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French: Reading, Writing / Spanish: Reading, Writing / Hebrew: Oral
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Education
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York University, Toronto, ON, 1994-2002
PhD Candidate, Programme in Social & Political Thought
The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 1994
MA, Philosophy
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1991
Yale Divinity School
Reed College, Portland, OR, 1990
BA, Religious Studies |
