Author Hal Fleming was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Hal Fleming has worked for the Peace Corps, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, UNICEF and the US Mission to the United Nations. He has lived 10 years in West and North Africa, and has been on shorter missions to 20 other African countries plus others in the Asia and Pacific regions. Early on, he worked at Forbes Inc. in New York and also taught at the university level. He holds degrees from Brown and Columbia and lives with his wife in Northern Virginia.



• Fleming’s novel, The Brides’ Fair is a novel of intrigue set in the North Atlas mountains of Morocco among the Berbers. The Brides’ Fair is an actual event among these tribal people where communal bridal fairs are common.



• Review from the Foreign Service Journal (Nov. 2008): “In this novel of international intrigue, Americans, mountain Berbers, Moroccan Berbers and a rebel group all converge on the festival (The Brides' Fair) … The story unfolds steadily, moved along by the author's authentic insights into both the diplomatic community and Islamic history.”

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