Anthony David is an historian, teacher, author, and ghostwriter of nine books, most recently Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and Its Hope for the Future, which he wrote for Ami Ayalon, the former director of the Israeli Shin Bet. Ayalon turned to David for his memoir after reading Once Upon a Country (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), the biography David wrote for Ayalon’s Palestinian partner in a peace movement, Sari Nusseibeh.

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Friendly Fire reflects David’s interest in writing about outsiders and rebels in politics, civil society, or business who fight against the odds for justice and decency in the world.

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He lives with his wife, Rebecca, his collaborator and editor, daughter Josephine, and infant son Francisco, in Tangier, Morocco, where he is the academic director of the University of New England Tangier campus and teaches creative writing. In 2017, he founded the literary magazine Moorish Tides to showcase his students’ work.