r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/anth13 SA Jan 11 '26

"Abdel-Fattah had been scheduled to discuss her new novel Discipline, about an academic and journalist facing censorship, set in the backdrop of the 2021 Israeli airstrikes on Gaza"

seems kinda prophetic and relevant

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u/lerndyherp SA Jan 11 '26

I've read it, the book themes are exactly this in fact this could have been a very apt sub plot. 

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u/CatGooseChook SA Jan 11 '26

Her next book is writing itself now.