Jan Denys, labor market expert at Randstad Group.
Choose for Only in Berlin by Hans Fallada.
“In full Nazi euphoria, Germany has just defeated France, the modest German couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the message that their son has been killed. They decide to rebel. But how? By writing postcards with anti-Nazi statements and distributing them criss-cross in Berlin. Based on true events. According to Primo Levi, the best novel ever about the German resistance. I immediately believed him.”
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Koert Debeufhistorian and geopolitical researcher (VUB and Oxford) and Middle East specialist.
Suggests Islam. Boom period and contemporary crisis in the Muslim world by Ahmet T. Kuru.
“Very interesting analysis of how the crisis in the Muslim world started in the 11th century. And very similar to our start in the Middle Ages. According to Kuru, it is not religion itself, but the abuse of religion by those in power that leads to the demise of culture. Something that unfortunately reappears today and causes conflicts in various parts of the world.”
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Elke Andreas Boon, artist, exhibits at Diskus in Aalst. Her book has just been published OnHope and the album under her musical pseudonym Mati Le Dee: The Broken Heart of Mati Le Dee.
Suggests On Abortion by journalist-artist Laia Abril.
“It documents the dangers and harms caused by barriers to abortion. Why do pro-lifers, despite all the science, consider themselves so morally superior that they arrogate the right to stigmatize half the population, deny their right to self-determination (human right) and objectify them? This is a first step to justify violence against those people and that step is constantly being taken by the ban.”
