I sure hope so. Many translations. But since Arabic was the common language of the 9/11 plotters, it have been nice if they had known a little more about the city they are so determined to destroy.
They only saw Manhattan as "coming from Mars", as the birthplace of Eugenics and the Atomic War.
This is all true --- but only a partial truth.
Like all the world - like all of us - Manhattan is truly janus-like.
Within it, good and bad live in commensality, as does war and peace, love and aggression and big and small : all dine together at a common table.
I want to show the 9/11 plotters and their would-be successors that wartime Manhattan also "came from Venus".
That the borough was also home to Emma Lazarus's Golden Door and to successful efforts to ensure that wartime's life-saving penicillin was made available to all the world's tired, poor and huddled 4Fs - regardless of race, colour ,creed or gender.
If a copy of my book makes even one future would-be plotter pause and re-consider, it will be worth it....
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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