Amelia Thomas is a Lonely Planet writer and journalist who’s been living and working in the Middle East for the past five years. She covered the last Palestinian Intifada, the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, and the Israeli disengagement from Gaza for various media outlets, including the Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, Middle East Times, and CNN Traveller. Amelia is the lead author of Lonely Planet’s guide to Israel & The Palestinian Territories,, and recently wrote The Zoo on the Road to Nablus, which tells the true story of the last Palestinian zoo.