The Line In The Sand: A political thriller about the war in Iraq
Nuri Kino has followed the developments in Iraq before the war and now both during and after it. He has not only been to Iraq itself, but also interviewed refugees and authorities in the neighboring countries such as Jordon, Syria, Turkey and Lebanon.  He has reported year after year about the consequences of the war in radio reports, TV documentaries, and a series of newspaper and magazine articles. He has helped make major changes in the public’s view of the war and its aftermath. He is, without question, one of the leading investigative journalists, documentary filmmakers and authors in Scandinavia if not Europe. His earlier novel, The Do-Gooders, is now distributed not only in the Scandinavian countries but in Germany as well. Recently he wrote an exciting Swedish best-seller, The Swedish Godfather. Nuri was winner of the European Parliament’s Prize for Journalism 2010. David Kushner is an American journalist living in Sweden. He graduated from Queens College and studied toward an MA at Columbia University under the renowned critic, author and anthologist, Professor John Gassner. He served in the United States Army as a journalist in the Public Information Office (PIO) for the 2nd Armored Division. His articles and interviews also appeared in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes.  He and a colleague, Lars Malmström, translated four of Ingmar Bergman’s classic films, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and The Magician, for an anthology of Berman’s scripts published by Simon & Schuster as Four Screenplays by Ingmar Bergman. He worked as a TV producer/director for Swedish Television and directed some 12 documentary films for them. One of his great loves is sailing and he has written a number of articles in Yacht Racing Magazine and One Design and Offshore Yachtsman. He competed in a number of offshore races and reported on the One Ton, Half Ton and Quarter Ton Cup races as well as the Baltic Race both on film and in print. He and his wife Shoshana travel extensively.  He is retired and resides near Stockholm.