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Reviews and press

Weser courier:

The book of the hour was published in Bremen. Sujet-Verlag has just published the German translation of a volume of interviews that has caused a stir in France since it came out in November 2015. (...) more

– Iris Hetscher

Telepolis:

And yet, Violence and Islam remains an important text, one that, with good reason, provokes dissent, that should not be dismissed but should be discussed.  more

– Gerrit Wustmann

Weser courier:

This brings Adonis back to the topic that has always bothered him: the struggle between the two mainstreams of Islam. On the one hand the rigid ideological orientations, Wahabism or Salafism, on the other hand the open, liberal mysticism. The regimes in the Arab countries were all based on the former, backward-looking interpretations that had nothing to do with great culture. And that's why, according to Adonis, they can't make sustainable policies for their countries. Added to this is the fatal role played by the West, which "despises the Arabs" and strives for neo-colonialism instead of cooperation. He says all this calmly, but it bothers him, makes him angry and sad, you can tell. (...) more

– Iris Hetscher

New Zurich newspaper:

Adonis was one of the left-wing Arab intellectuals who had had high hopes for revolutionary changes in the Arab world since the 1960s. Even the Arab defeat in the June 1967 war did not discourage these people. They now placed great hopes in the Palestinian resistance movement and adopted theories of people's war and radical revolutionary transformation from other parts of the Third World. From 1968 Adonis published the magazine "Mawaqif" in Beirut, which for a long time was one of the most interesting organs of this milieu. (...) more

– Alexander Flores

radio contributions

WDR 5 Scala – current culture from 08/08/2016 – Link

Nordwestradio Buchpiloten – Silke Behl in conversation with Stefan Weidner from November 20th, 2016 – Link

Nordwestradio Buchpiloten – Excerpts from the event with Adonis in Bremen on November 20th, 2016 – Link