In the country of the oldest novels in the world... the Algerian text shelters the Palestinian.
The participants in the Algiers International Fiction Forum unanimously agreed on the necessity of supporting the Palestinian presence in Arabic writings. Forum participants considered that the recent war on the Gaza Strip exposed the face of the world as well as the reality of the Arab narrative regarding its issues and history. The head of the Novelist Forum, Ismail Yabrir, said in his interview with Al Jazeera Net, “Palestine is present in contemporary fictional work through young writers and veteran names”