Robert F. Worth interviews Khaled Khalifa, whose new novel, In Praise of Hatred, is informed by “a bloody era of Syria’s history.”
“The novel, he said, took him 13 years to write, and draws on his early years growing up in Aleppo. There he watched the conflict between the Islamists and the security forces of Syria’s secular Baath Party become steadily more violent, with what he calls a ‘culture of elimination’ developing on both sides.” – from “A Bloody Era of Syria’s History Informs a Writer’s Banned Novel,” by Robert F. Worth, The New York Times