Paris Book Fair fraught with political tension

Arab publishing houses, publishers and authors are acting against their "own best interests" with their boycott, German literary critic Tilman Krause points out. "If there's a country in Europe where there's continuous interest in Arab literature in general and North African literature in particular, then it's naturally France. To discontinue their official activities there and instead focus on making vitriolic attacks against the one stable democratic state in the Middle East, which is also home to one of the world's most lively literary landscapes is, to use Talleyrand's words, more than a crime; it's a mistake."

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