Dr. Romano, CONTROVERSIAL, author: “Love & Terror in the Middle East, 3rd Edition”

Feb. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Love And Terror – A Potent Mix

Houston, TX, December 29, 2012 – Few of us will ever experience the devastating horror of living within a war zone. Yet all of us know what it means to form a life-long, sustaining connection with another human being.  Together, they weave a spellbinding story ultimately affirming the possibility of peace and reconciliation. In Love and Terror in the Middle East, 3rd Edition (World Audience Publishers), readers walk the war-torn streets of Israel and the West Bank with peace activist Frank Romano, and struggle with the inevitable casualties within his personal life as it becomes caught up in his work.

Romano's efforts to promote understanding, communication and cooperation in the region among Jews, Muslims, Christians and non-believers have spanned years of bitter conflict. Passing through a virtually endless maze of checkpoints and walls, he has faced hatred on every side.

“I’ve been harassed and arrested by the Palestinian police, harassed and arrested by Israeli police and Israeli soldiers and attacked by Israeli settlers,” he says. “A peace activist friend was recently murdered in the West Bank.”

The aftermath of that murder in the Jenin Refugee Camp spurred him to return and uncover the truth buried deep within the shadows of that mysterious death. A new chapter in this 3rd Edition of Love and Terror in the Middle East, titled “Return to Killing Fields,” documents his struggle to accept yet another senseless death.

Romano’s search for interfaith peace interweaves with his sometimes tragic personal life, hints of love and desperation after a series of lovers and broken relationships. His life sometimes resembles a personal battlefield more than a peacemaking mission as he continues to look for love among Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Holy Land.  

“I wrote this book to share with a wide audience my belief in the possibility of peace through grassroots activities in Israel and Palestine,” Romano explains. “A lot of the Middle East conflict is due to misunderstanding and lack of communication among religious groups, so I want to encourage people to begin organizing in their own communities to help break down those barriers.”

Frank Romano earned a PhD at University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, and a JD at Golden Gate University, Faculty of Law, San Francisco. At present, he teaches law, literature, history and philosophy of law at the University of Paris Ouest and practices law in France and in the United States. The author actively organizes and participates in interfaith events involving Jews, Muslims and Christians in Israel and Palestine. Dr. Romano has also authored a book entitled Storm Over Morocco, published by World Audience, Inc., Globalization of Antitrust Policies (Mondialisation des politiques de concurrence), published by L’Harmattan in French, Love and Terror in the Middle East and a book of poems entitled Crossing Over. He has written many articles published in Europe and in the United States where he is often invited to speak at conferences.

For more information, please visit http://frankromano-lt.com/

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Upcoming  Author Events:

ISRAEL

Wed., March 27, 7-9 pm, The American Colony Hotel, Lobby, (sponsored by Munther’s Bookshop)  1 Louis Vincent Street, Jerusalem

Thurs., March 28, 6:30 pm, Educational Bookshop Books and Café, 19 Salah Eddin Street, Jerusalem

UNITED STATES

    California

         Sat., April 20, 1:30-3:30 pm, Copperfields Books,140 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA

Sat., April 28, 1:30-3:30 pm, Copperfields Books, Montgomery Village, 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa, CA,  

    New York

         Sat., May 11, 2 pm, Every Thing Goes Book Café, 208 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY    

For more information about the book, see below.

The book “Love and Terror in the Middle East” is about the author’s recent quest for spiritual peace among religions in the Middle East, notably highlighting interfaith activities in Israel and Palestine. He takes readers to the middle of the Jenin Refugee Camp as well as Hebron and Ramallah, where he spoke with many former prisoners of the Israeli government.

Traveling between these areas has been risky: he has been harassed and arrested by the Palestinian police, harassed by Israeli soldiers and attacked by West Bank settlers. Last month, a peace activist friend of Romano’s, an Israeli Jew, was murdered in the West Bank. Several months before that, another of his interfaith peace activist friends was murdered in Jerusalem.

The author believes that from the Jenin Refugee Camp, the heartthrob of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, will flow the river of peace that will reach the four corners of the world.

The book also delves into his agonized divorce with his first wife and separation from his three children after she fled to the United States, which ironically becomes a springboard for the author to seek his passion, interfaith peace in the Holy Land through love and understanding. In the meantime he meets another woman with whom he has a daughter. But his activities in Israel and the West Bank give rise to conflict with his new family. His passion for interfaith peace inspired the closing of his law firm in Marseille and the permanent separation from his partner and their daughter in Paris over his dedication to traveling to the Middle East and organizing marches and dialogues for peace in the middle of the conflict.

Then Romano takes us to the middle of the Occupied Territories, to the West Bank City of Jenin, for a peace march in the place that offered the greatest resistance to Israeli soldiers during confrontations over the past 20 years.

His search thereafter for interfaith peace interweaves with his sometimes tragic personal life, hints of love and the desperation after a series of lovers and broken relationships. His life sometimes resembles more a personal battlefield than a peacemaking mission as he continues to look for love among Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Holy Land.  

He was recently interviewed on several major national radio shows, including with:

MICHAEL SAVAGE on Savage Nation-Broadcasted nationwide on AM WTNT 730, June 28th, 2011, at 5:30 PM, PST. To listen to it just click on the link below:

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To view the list of 12 other recent radio interviews and to listen to some of them, please access his website and click on the enclosed links. His website is located at:

www.frankromano-lt.com

In July, 2007, he spoke at a conference at Cardiff University, England, at a conference entitled “Theory, Faith, Culture” on the following topic: “Confrontation between Fundamentalists and Universalists in the New Age of Religious Freedom”. He then gave a power point presentation about that book and interfaith activities at the Mid-Manhattan Library in New York City on October 13, 2007.

He was later interviewed live about my first book, “Storm over Morocco”; he was interviewed live by FOX NEWS 26 and FOX 4 NEWS, Houston September 4th and Kansas City September 6, 2008 respectively and was a participant during a panel discussion concerning spiritual issues broadcasted live by a Houston Time Warner television station. Finally, Dr. Romano gave a power point presentation about my book and interfaith activities at the Mid-Manhattan Library in New York City on October 13, 2007.

In addition, on January 4th, 2008, Brady Douglas and Jennifer Kiel man, News Anchors, of NBC Channel 56 on KETK interviewed him during a 5 O’clock News broadcast, in particular about the situation in the Middle East.