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At Home in the World: Collected Writings
Offers a collection of fifty of the best stories written by Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Islamic extremists while investigating a story in Pakistan.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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Daniel Pearl
4 books7 followersDaniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist with American and Israeli citizenship. He was kidnapped by Pakistani militants and later murdered by Al-Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Pakistan.
Pearl was kidnapped while working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He had gone to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently beheaded by his captors.
In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder.
In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed stated that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel has also been connected with the kidnapping.
On January 23, 2002, on his way to what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani at the Village Restaurant in downtown Karachi, Pearl was kidnapped near the Metropole Hotel at 7:00 pm by a militant group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.
The group claimed Pearl was a spy and—using a Hotmail e-mail address—sent the United States a range of demands, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government.
The message read:
"We give you one more day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan."
Photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached. There was no response to pleas from Pearl's editor, nor from his wife Mariane.
Nine days later, Pearl was beheaded. On May 16 his severed head and decomposed body were found cut into ten pieces, and buried—along with the jacket of a tracksuit Pearl was wearing when photographed by his kidnappers—in a shallow grave at Gadap, about 30 miles north of Karachi. When the police found Pearl's remains, Abdul Sattar Edhi, one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan, arrived promptly on the scene, personally collected all ten body parts, and took them to the morgue. Pearl's body was returned to the U.S., and was interred in the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. No autopsy was performed as the subsequent video made obvious the sequence of events leading to Pearl's death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P...
Pearl was kidnapped while working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He had gone to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently beheaded by his captors.
In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder.
In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed stated that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel has also been connected with the kidnapping.
On January 23, 2002, on his way to what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani at the Village Restaurant in downtown Karachi, Pearl was kidnapped near the Metropole Hotel at 7:00 pm by a militant group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.
The group claimed Pearl was a spy and—using a Hotmail e-mail address—sent the United States a range of demands, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government.
The message read:
"We give you one more day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan."
Photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached. There was no response to pleas from Pearl's editor, nor from his wife Mariane.
Nine days later, Pearl was beheaded. On May 16 his severed head and decomposed body were found cut into ten pieces, and buried—along with the jacket of a tracksuit Pearl was wearing when photographed by his kidnappers—in a shallow grave at Gadap, about 30 miles north of Karachi. When the police found Pearl's remains, Abdul Sattar Edhi, one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan, arrived promptly on the scene, personally collected all ten body parts, and took them to the morgue. Pearl's body was returned to the U.S., and was interred in the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. No autopsy was performed as the subsequent video made obvious the sequence of events leading to Pearl's death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P...
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Displaying 1 - 11 of 11 reviews
July 23, 2007
This is a collection of Daniel Pearl's work from the Wall Street Journal. I will admit I didn't know much of his work prior to his death as I am not a regular reader of the WSJ, but I wish I had followed him and am glad to have this book so I can read these pieces I may have never seen otherwise. I am sad at the reason why this collection was published though...
January 27, 2023
Not usually a fan of “collected writings” I found these articles quite interesting. What a tragedy.
July 7, 2023
I wanted to like it but it was a struggle. A collection of newspaper articles with only a few I liked. I feel bad I didn't care for it.
September 2, 2007
This is a series of columns from the Wall Street Journal by Pearl, who was brutally slain by Middle Eastern extremists. The columns are well written and show a lot of thought and legwork. Ultimately, however, many of them are dated. One, for instance, discusses the pay phone industry. A few show great insight into the future--one column in the 1990's discusses the threat of Bid-Laden. All of the writing shows a warm and caring author whose death was undeserved.
January 31, 2016
Pearl was a truly impressive chronicler of the humorous and enlightening details of the often dank world we live in. I enjoyed this collection of his work and I think it would melt the heart of even the Grinch himself. Unfortunately, not all regions of the world appreciate, or reward, irreverence and searching investigation. The world is poorer for not hearing his voice any longer and barbarism has grown closer. Hopefully, Pearl is not the last man of his type.
July 10, 2009
A conglomeration of Daniel Pearl's Wall Street Journal columns. Several topics, some I was more interested in than the political war topics. Something for everyone. Sad that he was killed, he was a good writer.
December 21, 2013
A collection of articles written by the former Wall Street Journal reporter who was brutally murdered by Al-Queda terrorists. His style reflected the heart of a joyous, compassionate man. Well worth the read.
September 5, 2007
Writings from murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Wonderful writing.
December 6, 2007
Lots of insight into the life of Pearl, who, if you'll recall, was killed while reporting abroad. I got the sense it had a bit of a rose-colored tint to it though.
March 10, 2016
A chance to become acquainted with Pearl's work posthumously.
March 15, 2015
I read this book when I was doing a report on Daniel Pearl. It is very touching and very emotional.
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