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State of Emergency : Travels in a Troubled World by Navid Kermani (2018, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherPolity Press

ISBN-101509514716

ISBN-139781509514717

eBay Product ID (ePID)239726786

Product Key Features

Book TitleState of Emergency : Travels in a Troubled World

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicTerrorism, Middle East / General

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Political Science

AuthorNavid Kermani

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-036533

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Those who want to see the day-to-day lives of human beings in the crisis regions of the Middle East - lives that don't make the news - should read Navid Kermani's sensitive reporting. Reports you won't soon forget." -- Deutschland-Radio "Kermani's well-researched and sensitive book reveals how violence is born. It also reminds us that far away victims and perpetrators have one thing in common: they're human beings, just like us." -- Süddeutsche Zeitung "Intense, colourful, emotional, subjective." -- Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung "Among the most thoughtful intellectual voices in Germany today." -- The New York Review of Books "After reading this book, one puts it down glad to have been both touched and taught" -- Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag "Kermani's style is nuanced and kindly, poetic and philosophical, he zooms in and out of perspectives like a novelist and is drawn to irresolvable tensions like a conceptual artist... State of Emergency is a humane and timely reminder that there is no one Islam, no one set of Islamic views, values and beliefs, just as there is no one Western creed." -- Geographical, "Those who want to see the day-to-day lives of human beings in the crisis regions of the Middle East - lives that don't make the news - should read Navid Kermani's sensitive reporting. Reports you won't soon forget." Deutschland-Radio "Kermani's well-researched and sensitive book reveals how violence is born. It also reminds us that far away victims and perpetrators have one thing in common: they're human beings, just like us." Süddeutsche Zeitung "Intense, colourful, emotional, subjective." Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung "Among the most thoughtful intellectual voices in Germany today." The New York Review of Books "After reading this book, one puts it down glad to have been both touched and taught" Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag "Kermani's style is nuanced and kindly, poetic and philosophical, he zooms in and out of perspectives like a novelist and is drawn to irresolvable tensions like a conceptual artist... State of Emergency is a humane and timely reminder that there is no one Islam, no one set of Islamic views, values and beliefs, just as there is no one Western creed." Geographical

Dewey Decimal915.604

Table Of ContentEditorial Note Cairo, December 2006 Paradise in a State of Emergency Kashmir, October 2007 Houseboat 1 In the City Houseboat 2 Politicians 1-4 Night Houseboat 3 The Shrine Houseboat 4 In the Countryside Houseboat 5 The Mother Houseboat 6 Ahad Baba In Kashmir, Far Away from Kashmir Landless Between Agra and Delhi, September 2007 Lumpenproletariat in Formation Why Complain? They Want Land Expulsion as Industrial Development Policy The Sky and the Ground Ram Paydiri Doesn't Understand The Laboratory Gujarat, October 2007 An Idol On the Rubbish Tip Into the Centre Social Praxis India's Future Where Even the Atheists Pray The Pit A Visit to the Sufis Pakistan, February 2012 Rhythm of God War Against Themselves The Lovers' Tomb O Papa, Protect Me In the Mansion District The Poor People's Peace Quiet, Cleanliness and Order The Feast The Cosmic Order Bleak Normality Afghanistan I, December 2006 People Don't Change Much Really Crazy Two British Commanders Humanitarian Mission In Kabul Where Is the Progress? Master Tamim The New Motorway American Headquarters Visit to the Passport Office Cola in the Dark The Limits of Reporting Afghanistan II, September 11, 2011 Cemetery 1 Walls in Front of Walls Northward Mazar-e Sharif The Best Place in Town In the Countryside In the Panjshir Valley In the South Peace Conference Tribal Leaders 1 Kandahar Tribal Leaders 2 The Limits of Reporting Cemetery 2 The Uprising Tehran, June 2009 Chance Companions Arrival Wednesday Thursday Friday Back to Saturday Sunday Early Monday When You See the Black Flags Iraq, September 2014 I. Najaf: In the Heart of the Shia Ubiquity of Death A Dangerous Topic A Different Shia With Swordlike Index Finger Grand Ayatollah Sistani's Message II. Baghdad: The Future Is Past A Thirty Years' War and More A Hookah with Goethe and Hölderlin Fog of Melancholy Right Out of Ali Baba The Last Christian A Warrior III. Kurdistan: The War for Our World Too Literally Overnight What For? To the Front The General The Entrance to Hell Syria, September 2012 The Centre and the Margins Artists of the Revolution Two Views Outsourcing Terror The Feast of St Elian At the Tomb of Ibn Arabi Thinking without Gradations The Intensive Care Unit Those Who Can Read, Let Them Read We Too Love Life Palestine, April 2005 In Search of Palestine Without Hope The Wall Against Empathy My Capitulation They Are Human Beings Life as What It Is Lampedusa, September 2008 Sunday Outing Ghosts Midnight The Previous Mayor The Camp The New Mayor Night Again With or Without Approval Cairo, October 2012

SynopsisThis book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe. Celebrated author Navid Kermani reports from a region which is our immediate neighbour, despite all too often being depicted as remote and distant from our daily concerns. Kermani has visited the places where no CNN transmitter truck is parked and yet smouldering fires threaten world peace. In his widely praised, wonderfully agile and careful prose, he reports on NATO's war in Afghanistan and the underside of globalization in India, on the civil war in Syria and the struggle of Shiites and Kurds against the 'Islamic State' in Iraq. He was the only Western reporter present at the suppression of the mass protests in Tehran, travelled with Sufis through Pakistan, talked with Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf, and observed the disastrous Mediterranean refugee route in Lampedusa. Kermani's gripping reports allow us to understand a world in turmoil, to share the suspense and the suffering of the people in it. As if by magic, he brings individual lives and situations to life so vividly that complex and seemingly distant problems of world politics suddenly appear crystal clear. Our world too lies beyond Lampedusa., This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe.

LC Classification NumberDS49.7.K44513 2018