Germany
November 23, 2009
- <span style="font-weight:bold;">Latent shame over the Jews' failure to stand up to the Nazis is cited as a reason for the success of "Inglourious Basterds." </span>By Matt Beynon Rees - <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/general/091118/israel-holocaust-tarantino-spielberg?page=0,0">GlobalPost</a> JERUSALEM, Israel — Quentin ...
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November 8, 2009
- What Fell Apart, What Came Together Published: November 8, 2009 Nine poets — from Eastern Europe, America, Russia and Germany — write new works inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.via www.nytimes.com I remember that day and what I was doing and what that meant to me. My father had escaped WWII as a child and imigrated to Canada. The injustices of this world, and the ...
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November 4, 2009
- I’m always looking for a good spot in which to kill someone. Still, as a crime writer, I rarely have to ask about potential locations for a good murder. People are keen to suggest that the blood be spilled on their doorstep.Most recently, it was a pastor and his wife.To be fair, they actually said I ought to have my Palestinian detective Omar Yussef visit their church on the top of the Mount of ...
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October 29, 2009
- The question I ask myself is why was that innocent woman killed in the court and I don't understand why the authorities didn't react earlier to avoid such a tragedy. Her name is Marwa Al-Sherbany and she is an Egyptian National who was attacked for wearing an Islamic headscarf. The attacker, Alex W. suspected her for being a terrorist. It does not matter what her religion was and I guess she ...
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October 8, 2009
- Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog:When authors travel to promote their books in the US and UK, they’ve given up on referring to their appearances as “readings.” Now they’re “events.” Because no one wants to hear an author read.It could be because authors aren’t such compelling readers or because many of the biggest-selling authors don’t ...
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October 7, 2009
- Visible traces of WWII in Germany are disappearing. The allied forces blew up all the German bunkers leaving behind only the rubble, and that is being covered up. I moved to Nothweiler, Germany in 1992. It is a small village less than 10 kilometers from the office and production facilities that I was to manage. Nothweiler is on the border of France (Alsace), situated in a valley ...
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October 2, 2009
- The whole point of travel is to see Red Light districts around the world. That’s what I assume my German publisher C.H. Beck thinks. Or maybe that's what they think I'll like. Anyway, they keep sending me to Hamburg, which has one of the most famous naughty neighborhoods in the world.At the invitation of the extremely professional Harbour Front Literaturfestival and in the company of my Beck ...
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September 10, 2009
- Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog:I keep finding new reasons why I write my novels about the Palestinians. Usually these reasons have nothing to do with the Palestinians.Here’s the one that may be the deepest, the one I’ve known about for a while, but have only recently been able to face up to: it’s because I’m scared of home.Not so long ago, I ...
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August 27, 2009
- To introduce the next of my Palestinian crime novels, THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, my friend videographer David Blumenfeld filmed in New York (where the book takes place). His montages are mainly from Brooklyn's Bay Ridge and Coney Island sections. He then recorded me, looking sweaty and frankly a bit doped up, in my favorite seedy cafe in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter. You can view it here, and if you ...
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August 9, 2009
- When my second novel A GRAVE IN GAZA was being translated into German, I received an email from my translator. He had a number of penetrating questions about certain phrases I'd used in the book. He also happened to be the only translator who asked me a question about any of my books (and my work is translated in 22 languages so far.) Perhaps it’s not for nothing that Germany is the country ...
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