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“navid kermani”

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In the Other Direction Now

    Dispatches from East Africa

    by Navid Kermani ...
    Translated by Tony Crawford ...
    More than a travelogue: a work of human depth and understanding that has much to teach those interested in contemporary global affairs and postcolonial realities.Navid Kermani is an acclaimed writer already well known in the English-speaking world for his books Upheaval: The Refugee Trek**through Europe and Along the Trenches: A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan. His new book, In the Other ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • When Atheism Becomes Religion

    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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