John Maher

John Maher is an Irish writer and Middle East scholar whose novel The Luck Penny (2007) was shortlisted for best debut novel on BBC Radio 5. He holds a doctoral thesis from SOAS, University of London, published as 'Slouching Towards Jerusalem: Reactive Nationalism in the Irish, Israeli and Palestinian Novel' (2012), and has lectured in Near Eastern Languages at UCD and King's College, London.