Sandy Tolan is the author of two books: Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later and The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. He has reported from more than 30 countries, written for more than 40 newspapers and magazines, and, as co-founder of Homelands Productions, has produced hundreds of documentaries and features for public radio. He's also an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC and, from 2000-2007, taught international reporting and radio at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley.
Image as Metaphor
By Nubar Alexanian, Sharon Ball, Sherre DeLys & Sandy Tolan
Do metaphors inherently deepen a story? Can using metaphors be more effective than revealing direct facts and information about a subject? (more)
Megaphone
By Damali Ayo, Ahri Birnbaum, Jonathan Mitchell, Dmae Roberts & Sandy Tolan
How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them? (more)
The Lemon Tree
By Sandy Tolan
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah. (more)
