The Lines We Draw

<p><b>A moving, deeply empathetic memoir about Jewish family and history, which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw. </b><br><br>As a Jewish journalist covering the Middle East, Tim Franks has over the years been accused of being both a self-hating Jew and an Islamophobe. He always tried to draw a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Is it such a combustible mix? They were questions he struggled to answer. To begin with, he was a Jew without much of a back-story. <br>So he set out on a journey for his ancestral roots, one which took him from Constantinople to Cura¿, from Auschwitz to Lithuania to Downing Street. Along the way he challenged how he saw not just himself but the world. This is a moving, deeply empathetic memoir, which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw. <br>TIM FRANKS presents <i>Newshour </i>on the BBC World Service, with a global audience of millions. He was previously a BBC repor