State of Emergency

Navid Kermani has visited the places where there is no CNN camera team but where smouldering conflicts nevertheless pose a threat to world peace. In his wonderfully fluid yet careful prose style that has received so much praise he covers the NATO wars and the dark side of globalization in India, the revolt in Syria and the precarious situation in Palestine. Kermani was the sole western reporter on the scene when the mass protests in Teheran were crushed, and he has seen first-hand the catastrophe of refugees in the Mediterranean. His riveting coverage lets us understand a world in tumult and follow the crises with our hearts in our throats, but at the same time he conveys a feel for the seemingly insignificant details of everyday life in these regions.