About the Book: Our times are marked by constant agitation and knee-jerk outrage. Instead of objective dialogue, entrenched positions and ideological echo chambers dominate, causing public discourse to lose its democratic function.

For years, Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel have been bringing people with fundamentally different views into dialogue. Their experience shows that the problem of our time is not controversy itself, but rather an exaggerated social sensitivity that perceives every difference as a threat or an offense. Calls for boycotts, demands for “safe spaces” in public areas, and the politicization of emotions make productive debate impossible and undermine democratic coexistence.

*The Outrage Trap* powerfully demonstrates how a resilient culture of debate remains possible—one that withstands conflict, allows for ambivalence, and takes the other person seriously as a responsible dialogue partner.

Her book is a call not to leave the public sphere to the loudest or most outraged voices, but to revitalize it through genuine exchange.

Saba-Nur Cheema, born in 1987, grew up in Frankfurt as the daughter of Pakistani refugees. A political scientist with a Ph.D. in education, she conducts research at the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt am Main). She was a member of the German federal government’s expert panel on Islamophobia and serves on the executive board of the Goethe-Institut.

Meron Mendel, born in 1976, grew up on a kibbutz in Israel. The historian is a professor of social work and director of the Anne Frank Educational Center in Frankfurt. His SPIEGEL bestseller *Talking About Israel* was nominated for the German Nonfiction Prize.

Local advance ticket sales locations:

Lesezeichen Bookstore (Salzgitter-Bad)

Bookstore in the Ärztehaus (Lebenstedt)

Ticket reservations, registration, and information are also available at the Literaturbüro:

Literaturbüro at the City of Salzgitter’s Cultural Services Department, Phone: 05341 / 839 3752, Email: literaturbuerostadt.salzgitterde

This event is organized in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis Stadtgeschichte e. V. / Drütte Concentration Camp Memorial and Documentation Center.