Nadia Dean is a veteran writer,

Nadia Dean is a veteran writer, historian, and journalist.

historian, and journalist. Her father, a Lebanese Muslim and an economic advisor to the U.N., nurtured her interest in diplomacy and history, while her American Christian mother instilled in her a love for the written word.

Born in South Carolina, Nadia grew up moving between the Carolinas and the Middle East and witnessed firsthand the myriad aspects of five Middle East wars. At the onset of the 1967 Six-Day War she and her family evacuated Baghdad and in 1975 fled heavy shellfire in Beirut’s civil war.

For the controversial PBS documentary, Days of Rage, Nadia’s photographs of rioting Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza appeared in Time magazine. For the former CIA official Victor Marchetti’s New American View she interviewed Israeli politicians Benjamin Netanyahu and Benni Begin. With U.S. Senate Press Gallery credentials, Nadia reported on U.S. foreign policy from the State Department for two Middle East broadcasters.

Nadia Dean wrote A Demand of Blood in the Great Smoky Mountains, ancestral home of the Cherokee. Her scholarship examines unpublished 18th-century manuscripts, which reveal a complex tapestry of cultures converging on the eve of the Revolutionary War on the southern colonial frontier.

A Demand of Blood will be published in the fall of 2012.