Michael Goldfarb is the author of AHMAD'S WAR, AHMAD'S PEACE: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq, a New York Times Notable Book and the forthcoming EMANCIPATION: How Liberating the Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.

Goldfarb is a veteran of two decades in public radio. First as London Correspondent and then Bureau Chief for National Public Radio, then as Senior Correspondent for Inside Out documentaries. His documentaries have won broadcast journalism's highest honors including the DuPont-Columbia Award and the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award.

For the BBC, he recorded a series of programs in the Midwest called "Homeward Bound," which won Britain's Sony Award for Best Writing for Radio.