Der Nahost-Komplex

No one embodies fearless reporting from the Middle East quite like Natalie Amiri. For her new book, the award-winning author has traveled throughout the entire region. She gives a voice to the suffering children of Gaza, speaks with Israeli relatives of murdered hostages, meets Kurdish women holding the line against ISIS in Kobane, and interviews Marwan Barghuthi in an Israeli prison, whose significance for the Palestinians is compared to that of Nelson Mandela for South Africa. Conversations with Carla del Ponte and Margot Friedländer also feature in her book, through which she achieves something that seems almost impossible today: she bridges the worlds and evokes empathy for all sides. She firmly stands by the Jewish people while sharply criticizing German politics and media. A book that helps us understand the direction in which the Middle East is heading with a massively weakened Iran, and ultimately takes an uncompromising stance – that of the people.