13 October 2011
All the major events in people’s histories, if not the whole of humanity, drew a lot of their vocabulary and seminal expressions from the works of writers and intellectuals. The reverse has also happened, political repression, torture, and all forms injustice inflicted on people, have been a source of inspiration for great literary works and a passage obligé to understand turning points in people’s histories. Since the Arab world is on the fire of revolution, from the coast to the Gulf, the problematic of literature and revolution imposes itself at different and complicated levels.