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  • July 2021: Penguin Random House acquires the North American rights to The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC, and will reissue the book in early September. (The book, originally published in 2002 the U.S. by Soho Press in New York and Doubleday Canada, has been out of print for several years)
  • July 2021: An article on The Rescue of Jerusalem receives top billing in The Ancient Near East Today, the online newsletter of a leading archaeological organization, The American Schools of Overseas Research. 
  • June 2021: CBS Studios acquires the rights to make The Rescue of Jerusalem the basis of a television series. 
  • Summer 2020: Gorgias Press publishes Jerusalem’s Survival, Sennacherib’s Departure, and the Kushite Role in 701 BCE: An Examination of Henry Aubin’s Rescue of Jerusalem (364 pp.), edited by Alice Ogden Bellis, features eight historians’ independent evaluations of the thesis of The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC. The evaluation was commissioned by The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. See press release.
  • December 2019: The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures publishes an e-version of Jerusalem’s Survival, Sennacherib’s Departure, and the Kushite Role in 701 BCE (292 pp.). 
  • September 2019: A 45-minute documentary centered on my City for Sale, a book published in 1977 and unearthed by filmmaker Martin Frigon, receives a Gemini Award (the Canadian “Emmies”) for best scenario; it was also a finalist in four categories. Title: Cities Held Hostage; French version, Mains basse sur la ville. The book/film is an investigation of the global investment forces that continue to transform major cities and suburbs. Montreal is the subject of the book’s research, which took place in seven countries.

Author of:

  • The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC (2002)
  • Rise of the Golden Cobra (YA fiction, 2007)
  • Who’s Afraid of Demergers? The Straight Goods on Quebec’s Megacities (2004)
  • City for Sale: International Financiers Take a Major North American City by Storm (1977)

Co-author of:

  • Jerusalem’s Survival, Sennacherib’s Departure, and the Kushite Role in 701 BCE: An examination of Henry Aubin’s Rescue of Jerusalem (2019)
  • Questions d’éthique: Jusqu’où peuvent aller les journalistes? (1991)