Muslim Authors at the First South African Book Fair: Variety as a Community Reality
Variety as a Community Reality The "Celebrate Africa" book fair in Cape Town was the biggest of its kind ever to be held on African soil. Renowned Muslim writers like Imraan Coovadia und Rayda Jacobs were also invited to attend. Almuth Schellpeper reports Sophisticated literature off the beaten paths of the mainstream – Rayda Jacobs, left, and Imraan Coovadia One woman describes her addiction to gambling, her relationship to her homosexual son who is suffering from AIDS, and her affair with her sister's husband. What is so astonishing about her story is not her shameless vanity or her...