Hagar has written two books
In the Footsteps of Cornelia Anna Maria Grader
In the middle of the night in Broome, Western Australia, I was standing in a phone booth, in conversation with my lawyer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I was standing between intoxicated Aboriginal people sitting on the pavement around the phone booth, the only light in the dark surroundings. It was all so surreal that I knew there was a story to tell. A story that began with the demolition of the Jewish quarter in Amsterdam, which progressed to conflicts with people driven by greed and 6 years of living in a car in a parking lot in the Australian outback.
In the Footsteps of Cornelia Anna Maria Grader is available at
Kobo Books on Kobo and Apple Books.
It can be read on Substack, one chapter at a time, starting with
the first chapter.
Land Of Promises
This book is my personal story of growing up in a country who’s existence is continuously questioned. Does a promise by god need to be fulfilled by humans? What if it means overruling god’s will that traumatised people wouldn’t build a country - they weren’t even allowed in. It’s not for nothing that for forty years Mozes was roaming the desert with his people, so that only the new generation who didn’t know slavery would be allowed into the promised land. Is a traumatised person capable of building a country without repeating his experiences, or not?
K’naan was inhabited, and so was Palestine. Obviously those who claim the land are in the position of the agressor, in front of those who are already tenanting. The jewish people don’t see themselves as agressors, but as perpetual victims. Acts of aggression are seen as acts of heroism. Is it ok to seize and conquer a promise?
Land Of Promise can be found at
Kobo Books and Apple Books.
It can be read chapter by chapter on
Substack.