Atta Kobek Jarett
Atta Kobek Jarett A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.Ours is a century of fear. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe…
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Atta Kobek Jarett
A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.Ours is a century of fear. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom.
There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the "Islamic-Oriental city." Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if