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by Lina Mahmoud

by Mursi Saad El-Din

Opening this week, the Frankfurt Book Fair has prompted much commentary on Arab culture in the German media. Peter Ripken, project manager of the fair's International Centre, notes a remarkable upsurge in the popularity of Arabic literature, while Rania Gaafar, in Frankfurt, scans the recent German press and the Internet for resonances of the event