Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair

On the 19th and 20th of this month, the inaugural Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair is set to run opposite the fairgrounds of the massive Frankfurt International Book Fair, one of the annual centers of the book trade, and the place where -- last year -- organizers shut down and silenced an event to award Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli a prize and another around her prize-winning novel, Minor Detail. Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair organizers say they plan to hold the fair opposite Frankfurt, as "we believe confrontation is required to break this suffocating silence."