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Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil Haley will interview Sandy Tolan, Author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. About THE LEMON TREE: In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan is the author of Children of the Stone: The Power of Music, The Lemon Tree, and Me & Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-five Years Later. He has written for the New York Times Magazine and for more than 40 other magazines and newspapers. As cofounder of Homelands Productions, Tolan has produced dozens of radio documentaries for NPR and PRI. His work has won numerous awards, and he was a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an I. F. Stone Fellow at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he directed the school's Project on International Reporting. He is currently a professor at the University of Southern California (USC)’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles. Find out more at sandytolan.com