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Born in Germany in 1967, Berlinbased writer Carolin Emcke has seen a thing or two. Serving as staff editor of Hamburg’s news magazine Spiegel from 1998-2006, Emcke travelled as a foreign correspondent, reporting from crisis-hit countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kosovo, Iraq and Colombia – to name just a few. After Speigel, Emcke went on to spend seven years as an international reporter for newspaper Die Zeit, covering Israel, West Bank, Egypt, Haiti and the US.
Now a freelance writer, and having had time to reflect on her experiences of conflict reporting around the world, Emcke has published Against Hate – an attempt to confront and analyse the rise of hate, populism and far-right politics across European society. If you’ve ever found yourself ruminating on the human race’s capability for such catastrophic, seemingly nonsensical examples of hate, then it is a must-read. DIVA finds out more about the woman behind the words…