Profiles in Peace

I wrote a long profile of José Ramos-Horta, the 24-year exile and advocate for freedom for East Timor who won the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize and then, in 1999, returned home and became his newly free country’s president. José was a profound pleasure to interview, addressing me in emails as “my dear good man Jasper” and sharing a fascinating, tragic, but ultimately sweet story. The article ran as the cover story for the Antioch Alumni Magazine, which I co-edited. You can read it online.