Samia Zennadi, co-founder of the APIC publishing house in Algeria, coordinator of the Alliance’s French-language network, friend, comrade... Samia lit up minds and faces, Samia was committed, Samia was funny, Samia had a big heart.
Samia left us in January 2025 and we are at a loss for words to express our immense sadness.
The members of the International Alliance of Independent Publishers send their warmest and most supportive thoughts to Samia’s family, friends and loved (...)
Vandana Shiva has worked with farmers’ and people’s movements across the world against what she calls “seed imperialism”, economic polarisation, and the digital colonisation of our ecological and social diversity. This powerful memoir looks back at the most memorable campaigns and movements that she has been part of, while looking ahead to the challenges posed by the COVID crisis, the privatisation of biotechnology, and the commodification of our biological and natural resources. “The awareness (...)
While the Arab world shares a language, the Arabic language, which has cemented its culture over centuries, it is far from being the only one. From the Maghreb to the Mashreq, from the Horn of Africa to Cham, this immense space covers a diversity of realities. Linguistic diversity is therefore inherent to it.
More than 30 independent publishing houses from 7 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Syria and Tunisia) and 9 languages offer you an immersion in the literature, (...)