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Saudi Book Fair Yanks Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Blasphemous’ Poetry

WORDS Posted: March 14, 2014 12:57 am

“The publications administration at the [Riyadh International] book fair, one of the biggest of its kind in the Arab world, ordered the removal of all books containing [the Palestinian poet’s] work after youths from the religious police complained about the content of the books. … Darwish, who died in 2008, is considered a modern Arab literary giant.”

WORDS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Gulf News Published: 03.13.14

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