The perpetrator - victim dilemma in the novel "The dark ship" of Sherko Fatah

This research deals with a global phenomenon: terrorism, which needs more than military solutions to fight. Cultural and intercultural solutions should also play a role, since they are especially extreme, fundamentalist thoughts that the terrorists believe in.
Among the literary works that have discussed this topic, we deal with the novel "The dark ship"(2008) of Sherko Fatah. In his works tries Fatah, a half-Iraqi, to display the mentality of young people from the Arab world in a way that makes an empathic attitude of the German reader possible, which could contribute to a better understanding between both cultures.
The novel has three stations: the Iraq with mass killings of Kurds, the boat that brings the main character from the Middle East to Europe, and finally Germany   and the escape into the arms of familiar thoughts. The title of the novel refers to the second station of the inhumane travel of the refugees over the sea, where many die dramatically.