Lipika Pelham

Lipika Pelham is a historian, journalist, documentary filmmaker and the author of Passing: An Alternative History of Identity; Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic; Conversations Across Place, and The Unlikely Settler. She has recently completed a PhD commentary on Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic, at Westminster University, London. Lipika currently works on the news desk at BBC News Online, and BBC World Service, covering primarily Mideast news. She is also a globe-trotting Special Reporter for London-based Perspective magazine.