Writings

I was in my early twenties. I was a “world music” student at a young university in Canada. We had the opportunity to study both...

Kogi Indians, Columbia My security detail from the Moroccan police showed up at my door before sunset on Friday afternoon. He and I do...

I spent just under twenty years in East Africa doing international development work. Since then, I’m often asked, “Have the billions of...

Galilee hillsides - photo by Geoffrey Clarfield A few days ago I went to a lecture at a Synagogue in Montreal called, “The American...

Introduction There are fourteen books, among others, that I have read and reread which reveal the land and people of Israel in a way that...

My wife Mira and I have been living in Ein Kerem for the last month. It is an ancient village, thousands of years old and its stone...

Some Israelis read, write, and speak English with greater clarity and less hesitation than native born citizens of the Anglo Sphere. This...

Introduction by James Pew It’s been an eleven week tour through Geoffrey Clarfield’s bookshelves. What a ride. Which installment was your...

In 2005, an independent scholar and African art connoisseur and trader privately published a book called Phantom Voyagers: Evidence of...

People do not usually come to Jerusalem for the music although there is much music here. Many visitors, whether they be Jews, Christians...