State of Emergency von Navid Kermani

<p>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. 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.</p><p>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.</p>

Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association, Germany's most prestigious cultural award.

Editorial NoteCairo, December 2006Paradise in a State of EmergencyKashmir, October 2007Houseboat 1In the CityHouseboat 2Politicians 1-4NightHouseboat 3The ShrineHouseboat 4In the CountrysideHouseboat 5The MotherHouseboat 6Ahad BabaIn Kashmir, Far Away from KashmirLandlessBetween Agra and Delhi, September 2007Lumpenproletariat in FormationWhy Complain?They Want LandExpulsion as Industrial Development PolicyThe Sky and the GroundRam Paydiri Doesnt UnderstandThe LaboratoryGujarat, October 2007An IdolOn the Rubbish TipInto the CentreSocial PraxisIndias FutureWhere Even the Atheists PrayThe PitA Visit to the SufisPakistan, February 2012Rhythm of GodWar Against ThemselvesThe Lovers' TombO Papa, Protect MeIn the Mansion DistrictThe Poor People's PeaceQuiet, Cleanliness and OrderThe FeastThe Cosmic OrderBleak NormalityAfghanistan I, December 2006People Dont Change MuchReally CrazyTwo British CommandersHumanitarian MissionIn KabulWhere Is the Progress?Master TamimThe New MotorwayAmerican HeadquartersVisit to the Passport OfficeCola in the DarkThe Limits of ReportingAfghanistan II, September 11, 2011Cemetery 1Walls in Front of WallsNorthwardMazar-e SharifThe Best Place in TownIn the CountrysideIn the Panjshir ValleyIn the SouthPeace ConferenceTribal Leaders 1KandaharTribal Leaders 2The Limits of ReportingCemetery 2The UprisingTehran, June 2009Chance CompanionsArrivalWednesdayThursdayFridayBack to SaturdaySundayEarly MondayWhen You See the Black FlagsIraq, September 2014I. Najaf: In the Heart of the ShiaUbiquity of DeathA Dangerous TopicA Different ShiaWith Swordlike Index FingerGrand Ayatollah Sistani's MessageII. Baghdad: The Future Is PastA Thirty Years' War and MoreA Hookah with Goethe and HölderlinFog of MelancholyRight Out of Ali BabaThe Last ChristianA WarriorIII. Kurdistan: The War for Our World TooLiterally OvernightWhat For?To the FrontThe GeneralThe Entrance to HellSyria, September 2012The Centre and the MarginsArtists of the RevolutionTwo ViewsOutsourcing TerrorThe Feast of St ElianAt the Tomb of Ibn ArabiThinking without GradationsThe Intensive Care UnitThose Who Can Read, Let Them ReadWe Too Love LifePalestine, April 2005In Search of PalestineWithout HopeThe Wall Against EmpathyMy CapitulationThey Are Human BeingsLife as What It IsLampedusa, September 2008Sunday OutingGhostsMidnightThe Previous MayorThe CampThe New MayorNight AgainWith or Without ApprovalCairo, October 2012

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