Deb Reich

About Deb Reich – writer, editor, translator

“No More Enemies” author Deb Reich was born in Manhattan and educated at Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in English, with honors, in 1973.

Deb has always been interested in issues of conflict transformation. Her first published work set in Israel, a fictional story called “Dudu in Heaven,” explored the human face of the enemy in a narrative by an ordinary Israeli woman whose brother died in battle (“Lilith” magazine, Summer 1996).

Her original essays on overlapping co-regimes (“parallel sovereignty”) in Israel/Palestine began appearing online in 2002. Deb rejects, as insufficiently imaginative and also inherently unsustainable, conflict resolution approaches that rely mainly on “either-or” thinking. The spectrum of possibilities, she says, is so much grander and more appealing!

Rutgers University Press published Deb’s English translation of “Israeli and Palestinian Identities in Dialogue: The School for Peace Approach” (an anthology, edited by R. Halabi) in 2004.

An American-Israeli Jew, Deb lived for several years in Muslim Arab Palestinian communities in Israel. She trained in cross-cultural mediation and group facilitation at Wahat al Salam-Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace), the shared Jewish/Arab village near Latrun founded in the 1970s. Deb has freelanced widely for civil society organizations in Israel, and was a staff translator with “Haaretz-International Herald Tribune.”

When her book “No More Enemies” was published (2011), Deb was living in Jerusalem/Al Quds.