HOward Kaplan featured on FOllow Your Dream Podcast
Howard Kaplan is the author of 6 books including “The Damascus Cover” which was made into a feature film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyer and Sir John Hurt in his final film role. Howard talks about how it took 10 years to make the film. His newest novel, “The Syrian...
Writing about Locals – Guest Post on Mystery Fanfare
WRITING ABOUT LOCALES: SYRIA. Guest Post by Howard Kaplan Pictured is the boutique Talisman Hotel in Damascus, Syria in the former Jewish quarter, the home transformed after its owners fled the country. In my new historical novel, THE SYRIAN SUNSET, I note that in...
Howard Kaplan on Authors on the Air Podcast
Meryl chats with Howard Kaplan about his new novel, The Syrian Sunset, a sweeping novel of international intrigue about the Syrian Civil War. Howard Kaplan, a native of Los Angeles, has lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. At the...
Meeting Howard Kaplan – Episode Dedicated to Vivian Silver
At the age of 21, Howard Kaplan was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm to London. He’s now turned his derring-do into a series of thrillers set in the Middle East and in particular, Syria Howard joined us to...
Hemingway, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Blankfort, and Me
That time I went to Moscow and all I got was some illicit microfiche to bring to the West
Back in the USSR: I was an American college kid turned manuscript smuggler
That time I went to Moscow and all I got was some illicit microfiche to bring to the West
DAMASCUS COVER Scoops Four Awards at Manchester Film Festival
Chapter 35: The Damascus Cover, Bob Schieffer + Eleanor Henderson
“Damascus Cover” cleaned up at the Boston Film Festival: we speak with Howard Kaplan whose 40 year-old thriller inspired the movie.
Howard Kaplan talks about Damascus, and the new film of his book ‘The Damascus Cover’
#TalkingLocationWith…. author Howard Kaplan talks about Damascus, the setting for his thriller, The Damascus Cover, set in 1970’s DAMASCUS, and film adaptation set in 1989, starring Johnathan Rhys-Myers, Jürgen Prochnow and Sir John Hurt. Click here to read the...
What It’s Like To Never Be Allowed To Leave Your Home
I mentor four writers in Gaza through We Are Not Numbers, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 by an American journalist to pair Palestinians under 30 with international mentors. The goal is to help develop the English language skills of Palestinian youth and to...
News Radio 88 Podcast
Chapter 35: The Damascus Cover, Bob Schieffer + Eleanor Henderson
“Damascus Cover” cleaned up at the Boston Film Festival: we speak with Howard Kaplan whose 40 year-old thriller inspired the movie.