Tag: Adania Shibli
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Slavoj Zizek has been allowed to speak at the Frankfurt Book Fair while a Palestinian author was denied her prize
This is the great hypocrisy and travesty of the Frankfurt Book Fair where the privilege of free speech is only given to Westerners while dissidents and authors in the Arab world and dictatorial countries in Asia are denied their voice. Mind you, I fully agree with Zizek’s sober analysis of the current war in Gaza.…
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Frankfurt Book Fair is an irrelevant waste of space
I am in the book business and I know Frankfurt Bookfair well: it’s an irrelevant waste of space. I traveled to the Frankfurt Book Fair many times, but I no longer do because I prefer to do business in London, instead. Unless you are a German publisher distributing or promoting German books in Germany, the…