Middle East Panorama of 26 April 2009

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• Obituary: the Arab Sundanese novelist Tayib Salih.

How the Jewish people were invented, from the Bible to Zionism is the provocative title of the most recent book to be published in Israel by Shlomo Sand, a professor at Tel Aviv University. Khalil Bendib talked to Sand (from Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Radio, Berkeley).

• The BBC, Jeremy Bowen and the pro-Israeli lobby.