Your email address suggests you’re in NYC … Sansal himself was just in NYC this week. Perhaps he is still around. His travel schedule is posted on the publisher’s website at http://www.europaeditions.com/news.php?year=2009&month=10#news_id_632.

“Banned in the author’s native Algeria for of the frankness with which it confronts several explosive themes, The German Mujahid is a truly groundbreaking novel. For the first time, an Arab author directly addresses the moral implications of the Shoah. But this richly plotted novel also leaves its author room enough to address other equally controversial issues-Islamic fundamentalism and Algeria’s “dirty war” of the early 1990s, for example; or the emergence of grim Muslim ghettos in France’s low-income housing projects. In this gripping novel, Boualem Sansal confronts these and other explosive questions with unprecedented sincerity and courage.”

Hope that helps.