State of Emergency

* 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:

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.

"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."
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