Marwan
A work of fiction regarding the lives of the sociopathic terrorists involved with the 9/11 tragedy. As I say in the intro, this work of fiction by Aram Schefrin is not for everyone. 
How did an Egyptian city planner, a Yemeni religious fanatic, a boy from the United Arab Emirates who worshipped sex, not Allah, and a young student of aircraft design who went to a Christian school in Lebanon – four very different men with very different ideas - get involved in flying the 9/11 planes? How did the plot develop, and who developed it?
“Marwan,” a novel by Aram Schefrin, puts the reported facts together and fills in the details – from the group’s first coming together in Hamburg, Germany, to the moments before the jets they were to hijack took off. You’ll come to know the participants, and how they were motivated, what their personal lives were like and the roles they played in the plan. You will learn to know them as people – not simply as “terrorists” – because, as the author sees it, you have to understand your enemies if you want to defend yourself.
Your comments are welcome!
January 9th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
sounds intruiging…
March 10th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
This Podcast is a kind of closure to a terrible day in US History - forme. I live in one of the small towns in this book, they lived near us. I truly recommend this book. Well wrote and told.
May 8th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
This is a very enjoyable book. Thank you!
July 24th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
I believe this was one of the biggest peices of trash I have ever read. First of all, what was the point? The fact that these people existed is the only interesting reason for saying anything at all about them. But beyond that, why bother writing a book that takes small events in these men’s lives and fabricating dialogue that probably never happened just so the author can pretend to have some sort of context for writing a book. I found nearly all of this “novel” to be like a mind numbing brain freeze. It was boring and incomplete. I mean, if you’re going to take real people, find out where they were for a year, decide to speculate on events and make up a bunch of dialogue as if you KNOW what was going through their heads, and then get them to the point in the story where the culmination of all they planned is about to come to a head and decide,”this is a good place to end the book”, then Mr. Schefrin better go back to writing school and learn how to at least finish what he starts, even if it is a peice of crap.
P.S.- The readers sucked too!!!!!!!!!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
In my previous comment, I left off by saying “The readers sucked too!!!”. To clarify that, I was referring to the narrators/performers….and yes they left a most disturbing smell in my nasal cavity, lol.
August 1st, 2006 at 8:23 am
I downloaded Marwan about 5 months ago. I must say that I absolutely love it. ME and my brother listen to it everynight when we sleep. The narrators voice is excellent. We will continue to listen to this until I can narrate it myself backwards in Chinese. Chapter 9 in Kandahar is cool. I can really imagine how it was for them. Well done and hope you can continue making good audiobooks.
Cheers Mate
August 5th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Listen, its fiction. You don’t like it, don’t.
As someone who has lived, worked and communicated with Middle East Muslims for over thirty years I can say the “sound” of what was said range true. I don’t want to debate the actual content, cause I don’t think the writer really succeeded in “getting into their heads” and successfully communicating it. None-the-less I listened daily to each day’s section and lookefd forward to what the next section would reveal.
I look forward to other fiction written by Aram Schefrin
December 16th, 2006 at 6:44 am
hey every one I was just lisening to the preview and I thaut it was relly cool because it felt like you were relly there Ijust recently visited new york and saw the memorial of what was new york’ s pride. than I looked to the right and saw a women and her three kids she was stering up and then burtsed in to tears she was telling her kids that there dad was on the top floor that day dooing some maintance….I thaut.
oh and SCOTT I think that if you disslike this book keep your thauts to your self you would have never been able to do any thing like this EVER…. so think next time
February 5th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
I enjoyed this book, even if it’s accuracy is in question it is refreshing to see the story told from a different perspective. I’ve listened to Aram Schefrin’s other books and enjoyed them as well. I think he is a talented author and rest assured his stories are always told from the perspective of the side that history has deemed evil and wrong.
However, It seems as though this story may have been rushed out. It seems to be plagued by technical issues. In some chapters the other characters voices are sometimes impossible to here, and the chapters didn’t have trailing music so I often felt like the chapter prematurely ended and I was missing content. (All these issues of course can be worked out and I still highly recommend the authors works including this story.)
October 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Folks,
In theory, I’ve fixed some of the issues. Aram re-recorded episodes and sent those to us some time ago, and we managed to flub them up big time.
I’m going to download all of the chapters myself and check them, but I’m hoping we have them right. The only thing I notice right off the bat that I’m not happy with? The “serialization” seems to have been removed by Aram. So instead of the consistent branding of intros and outros like *all* other books on our site has, these start with “Chapter 1″. Sorry, but we deal with what the author gives to us.
If any of you see a problem with this book or any of the chapters, please contact me at evo at this domain dot com, please.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I have been trying to get into this book, but for some reason unknown to me I am getting the chapters cut of. The feed will tell me how long the episode is but I will be lucky to get two minuets out of 20 before the filed cuts out.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
This is CRAP. Fiction of a fiction. The Official Story of 9/11 is a fiction, and this adds on. PURE speculation, muddle the waters and incur people into thinking it DID happen like that. Atta worked for the CIA.