We see through the eyes of a writer who is as compassionate as he is highly educated, who not only has the most modern writing techniques at his disposal, but also the centuries-old traditions of oriental storytelling: repetition, digression, variation.

The Bruno Kreisky Forum has been working for years with a group of Jewish and Arab intellectuals on the topic of „The Jewish/Arab Engagement“, which deals with the „other“ in an empathetic way.