Books
Goldberg's book, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide (New York: Knopf, 2006), describes his experiences in Israel working at the Ketziot military prison camp as well as his dialogue with Rafiq, a prisoner whom Goldberg would later befriend in Washington, DC. American critics received the book positively as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times all named it one of the best books of 2006. The book sold 7,600 copies in hardcover and 3,200 in paperback, according to Nielsen Bookscan.
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