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Preface<br /><br /><br /><br />1.   Islam versus Islam<br /><br />The Judgement against the Egyptian Quran Scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd<br /><br /><br /><br />2.   The Thousand Voices of Silence<br /><br />The Situation of Artists and Intellectuals in Iran<br /><br /><br /><br />3.   Sympathy for the Satan<br /><br />After the Attacks of 11 September<br /><br /><br /><br />4.   The Soft Words of Violence<br /><br />After the Beginning of the War in Afghanistan<br /><br /><br /><br />5.   What Alternative?<br /><br />Before the War in Iraq<br /><br /><br /><br />6.   Right Again, Sadly<br /><br />The Attack on the Synagogue in Istanbul<br /><br /><br /><br />7.   Strategy of Escalation<br /><br />On the Hostages in Beslan<br /><br /><br /><br />8.   Good Thing You’re Educating Me…<br /><br />Confusion in the Integration Debate<br /><br /><br /><br />9.   Desperation and Enthusiasm<br /><br />After the French Referendum on the European Constitution<br /><br /><br /><br />10.  Hate Pictures and Hysteria<br /><br />The Dispute over the Muhammad Cartoons<br /><br /><br /><br />11.  Relying Only on Strength Makes Israel Weaker<br /><br />On the War in Lebanon<br /><br /><br /><br />12.  We are Murat Kurnaz<br /><br />Before Foreign Minister Steinmeier’s Testimony to the Bundestag Investigative Committee<br /><br /><br /><br />13.  The Message of Cologne<br /><br />The Discussion on Building a Grand Mosque<br /><br /><br /><br />14.  Death on Wednesday?<br /><br />The Trial of Ayatollah Boroujerdi in Tehran<br /><br /><br /><br />15.  Rejection of Europe<br /><br />The Swiss Referendum on the Prohibition of Minarets<br /><br /><br /><br />16.  State Without a People<br /><br />The Recent Mass Protests in Iran<br /><br /><br /><br />17.  Allianz Lecture on Europe<br /><br /><br /><br />18.  Triumph of Vulgar Rationalism<br /><br />The Outcry over Martin Mosebach and the Ban on Circumcision<br /><br /><br /><br />19.  Too Late for Good Conscience<br /><br />The Civil War in Syria<br /><br /><br /><br />20.  Farewell to the Middle East<br /><br />The ‘Islamic State’s’ March on Baghdad<br /><br /><br /><br />21.  Stop the ‘Islamic State’!<br /><br />The Threat of Genocide against Christians, Yazidis and other Ethnic Groups in Iraq<br /><br /><br /><br />22.  The European Ideal is Sinking<br /><br />The Mediterranean Sea as a Mass Grave<br /><br /><br /><br />23.  At Our Children’s Cost<br /><br />Europe after Brexit<br /><br /><br /><br />24.  What We Can Do in This Situation<br /><br />After the Attacks in Ansbach, Würzburg and Munich<br /><br /><br /><br />25.  The Weight of Two Sacks<br /><br />In Search of the Last Blind Spots of Progress in China<br /><br /><br /><br />26.  The Laughter of Nasrin Sotoudeh<br /><br />Iran on International Human Rights Day<br /><br /><br /><br />27.  For Three Dollars a Day<br /><br />After the West’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan<br /><br /><br /><br />28.  No Programme but Politics<br /><br />The Chancellorship of Angela Merkel<br /><br /><br /><br />29.  Afghanistan? Already a Non-Issue<br /><br />German Apathy Towards the World<br /><br /><br /><br />30.  The Price of Justice<br /><br />The Disappearance of the Generic Masculine in German<br /><br /><br /><br />31.  War as a Means of Politics<br /><br />After Vladimir Putin’s Announcement of a Russian Troop Deployment to Donbas<br /><br /><br /><br />32.  Through the Night<br /><br />Ukraine at War<br /><br /><br /><br />33.  Woman Life Freedom<br /><br />The Uprising in Iran, July – December 2022

"Among the most thoughtful intellectual voices in German today."<br /><i><b>New York Review of Books</b></i><br /><br />"Navid Kermani shows us what it means to be a critical intellectual today."<br /><i><b>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</b></i><br /><br />"The most interesting voice Germany has."<br /><i><b>Die Welt<br /></b></i> <p>"When reading Navid Kermani’s essays, Kent’s line from King Lear comes to mind: “I'll teach you differences.” Navid Kermani is a master of differences and an enemy of rash judgments. His analyses of current political and cultural crises are eye-opening and often disturbing in the best sense of the word."<br /><b>Wolf Lepenies, Rector Emeritus, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin</b><br /><br />"From a considered examination of the proposition that it was the Afghans who brought down the Berlin Wall to a scintillating essay on gender in language, What is Possible Now is a dazzling, provocative and thoroughly engaging survey of our times that is nothing less than essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we are now and what is still possible."<br /><b>John Burnside, University of St Andrews</b></p>

<b>Navid Kermani</b> 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.

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