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  • What is Possible Now

    33 Political Situations

    by Navid Kermani ...
    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    Navid Kermani is one of the outstanding public intellectuals of his generation. Not one for drawing hard and fast conclusions, his style of thought is probing, observant, often straying from well-trodden paths and always peering beyond the present moment to trace connections and grasp the bigger picture.Well known for his prize-winning novels and major works of non-fiction, Kermani has also gained ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Everyone, Wherever You Are, Come One Step Closer

    Questions about God

    by Navid Kermani ...
    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    ‘When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam – our Islam: the Islam I grew up with … In that dark, impersonal room, he was thinking of you.’This is why one father began to teach his daughter night after night not only about his own religion, but about that which unites all believers, about God and death, about love ... Read more

    Was $20.00 USD Now $12.00 USD

  • Between Quran and Kafka

    West-Eastern Affinities

    by Navid Kermani ...
    What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht�s drama? Which of Goethe�s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi�s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka?�One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable�: in this new book, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Tomorrow is Here

    Speeches

    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    by Navid Kermani ...
    Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or delivering a eulogy at his father’s graveside, Kermani finds words that surprise his listeners, enlighten them, provoke them, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Along the Trenches

    A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan

    by Navid Kermani ...
    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today. In September 2016 the German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to discover this land and to travel along the trenches ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Wonder Beyond Belief

    On Christianity

    by Navid Kermani ...
    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    What happens when one of Germany’s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable, the deeply human and the divine – a Christianity that today’s Christians rarely speak of so earnestly, boldly and enthusiastically ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Upheaval

    The Refugee Trek through Europe

    by Moises Saman, Navid Kermani ...
    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route." In this perceptive account from the front line of the "refugee crisis," Kermani shows how a seemingly distant world in which war and conflict rage has suddenly collided ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • State of Emergency

    Travels in a Troubled World

    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    by Navid Kermani ...
    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 ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    America's New Fundamentalists

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  • I Am a Bacha Posh

    My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan

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    Translated by Peter E. Chianchiano Jr. ...
    A 2015 Amelia Bloomer List Selection"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy.In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop ... Read more

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  • Occidentalism

    The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

    by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit ...
    Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East" in the Western colonial mind. But "the West" is the more dangerous mirage of our own time, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit argue, and the idea of "the West" in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies remains largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. ... Read more

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  • The Prayer of the Oppressed

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    The Power of this prayer of Imam Muhammad al-Dar’i lies in its simplicity, its purity, and its sincere supplication. It is essentially a plea to God that our transgressions be overlooked, that divine mercy be bestowed upon us, that social justice be restored in spite of us, that wrongs be righted, and that righteousness reign once again in our lands, so that the destitute may no longer be in need, ... Read more

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