The Correspondence of Kamel Daoud
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Who has the right to speak on behalf of whom? As thousands of refugees from the Middle East arrive Europe, what discussions should or shouldn’t we be having? After 19 academics sign a letter condemning the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud's latest pieces in Le Monde and The New York Times, writer Adam Shatz and Daoud exchange letters that address some of these questions. Elisabeth Zerofsky translated the moving correspondence.
Read an open letter to Kamel Daoud, signed by 19 academics, responding to Daoud's recent writings.