I WAS BORN IN THE Middle East. I was brought up in the Middle East (apart from three years spent in Moscow). My father was a foreign correspondent for The Times and “home” has always been rather difficult to name or define.
When I see buses and restaurants in Jerusalem blown up, or buildings in Gaza hollowed out by shells, or cities in Syria devastated by bombs, these are not faraway places of which I know little. These are places I either did or could