The Middle East is always in the news. The news is overwhelming. It’s always terrible. It can’t get any worse (actually, it can). The Middle East noise drowns out any attachment to those who live in the Middle East. For those of us in the West it’s just too much, and it’s not personal.
But if we want to understand the place and its people, we must get personal.
I’ve tried to help us do this in my writing. Our family memoir, Faith in Crisis, tells of my time as a hostage in Kuwait when the Iraqis invaded.
The memoir is followed by five novels. The Kuwait Trilogy is comprised by Kuwaiti Seeker, which tells the story of Yacob and his spiritual quest, Hot Spot, which relates the tale of Yacob’s son and his time as a prisoner in Iran, and Prince of the Sand, a fanciful story about the family’s triumph over the Gulf countries.
My fourth novel, Spiritual Passage in Arabia, relates the personal exploration of Pliny Oslander, who was the son of Christian missionaries in Kuwait. Revolt Against God tells of his son Jabr as he rebels against God. Jabr loses. God wins.
I hope these books will help you, the reader, in seeing the Middle East personally. That’s the only way we’ll ever understand it.
These books are available on my website:
