http://www.lawrencehelm.com/2010/09/abdel-samad-from-radicalism-to.html I was interested enough in Abdel-Samad as a result of reading his "Pending Collapse of the Islamic World" to try and find out more about him. He has written a memoir in German. Der Spiegel's "Spiegel Online International" has an article about it by Henryk M. Broder.