Julia Magnet
Julia Magnet is a senior fellow at Civitas: the Center for the Study of Civil Society and fellow at The Shalem Center in Jerusalem. A freelance journalist, she writes regularly for the comment pages of the Times (London,) and contributes to such publications as Prospect, New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, and City Journal on subjects that include the current state of British nursing, film, urban crime, American politics, the sexual revolution, and aspects of modern culture, both high and popular. She was formerly a Leader Writer at the Daily Telegraph, where she also wrote numerous columns, features, and book reviews. Born, raised, and educated in New York City, she now lives in London. She is 24. At the moment, Julia is writing her first book, a social history of the Jews of Iraq – told novelistically and based, very much, on individuals’ stories and recollections. This is a book about Iraq – not the Iraq we see on the TV, dusty and war-torn, but an Iraq of high culture, sophistication and integration. Integration of Shiites and Sunnis, of Christians, but – more than any one group – of Jews. Today there are 13 Jews left in all Iraq; in 1917 they were the largest single community in Baghdad, 39.5 per cent of a city of 202, 200. The exiles live in England, the States, Canada and Israel. They have influenced and enriched every country they settled in. Julia’s first book will be published in 2005 under Nan Talese’s imprint at Doubleday. Gillon Aitken is her agent.
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