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State of Emergency - Travels in a Troubled World (Paperback)
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State of Emergency - Travels in a Troubled World (Paperback)
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Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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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.
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.
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