'This Cursed Freedom' In Memoir, Egyptian Recalls Shift from Radicalism to Mainstream in Germany

In a new memoir Hamed Abdel-Samad, a German-Egyptian, documents a personal odyssey that began in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and ended with a job as an academic for an Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Munich. The scholar knows the Koran by heart and German beers, too.

Von Henryk M. Broder