Last week, in a bizarre turn of events, the British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie was informed that she would no longer receive the Nelly Sachs Prize on account of the fact that Shamsie supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) movement. The withdrawal of the prize, which has been welcomed by some and was […]
Author Archives: Patrick Olkrug
The writer is a masters student of Political Science at the University of Marburg in Germany and is part of the editorial board of the political quarterly magazine ‘Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung’. He wrote his bachelor thesis about the social and class structure of Pakistan. He tweets @PatrickOelkrug (https://twitter.com/patrickoelkrug)
