The Wolf-Crier's Diaries I: From the Arab Spring to Afghanistan, 2011-2013 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249866327)

The Wolf-Crier's Diaries is a collection of the author's writings from across the years, originally composed in Finnish. The texts range from intimate memoir to probing essay: some offer sober reflections on global events, others carry a subtle glint of humour.

The first volume in the series covers the years 2011 to 2013. Much of it engages with the Arab Spring and the Islamic world, yet the narrative never confines itself to a single region. Throughout the book, the reader travels across numerous corners of the globe, exploring their histories, tensions and transformations. These were the years of the Arab uprisings, as well as the period during which the author lived in Afghanistan. The volume also examines the growing polarization of Western societies, the rise of xenophobia, and the wave of terrorist attacks that reshaped political discourse.

Along the way, the author ventures into the mountains of Georgia and Morocco, follows a dragonfly to an Omani desert oasis, encounters rhinoceroses in both Kenya and Nepal, negotiates with a Samoan tribal chief, returns repeatedly to a favourite café in Istanbul and to the wooden seaside towns of Finland's Ostrobothnian coast.