Ron Brackin

The author of the international bestseller, Son of Hamas, Ron Brackin has traveled extensively in the Middle East as an investigative journalist. He was in the West Bank and Gaza during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, on assignment in Baghdad and Mosul after the fall of Iraq, and more recently with the rebels and refugees of Southern Sudan and Darfur. Ron is the author of other fiction and nonfiction books and has contributed articles and columns to publications that include USA Today and The Washington Times. He was a broadcast journalist with WTOP-AM, the all-news CBS radio station in Washington D.C. and weekend news anchor on Metromedia’s WASH-FM. And he served as a U.S. congressional press secretary during the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan.