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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on January 28, 2008, 05:21:02 PM
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CAIRO - Egypt has banned a number of Western and secular books from the 40th Cairo International Book Fair, including works by Czech author Milan Kundera and Morocco’s Mohamed Choukri, publishers said on Monday.
The Cairo book fair, the Arab world’s largest, is dominated by Islamist and educational works, an AFP correspondent reported, and the authorities have not said why the other works were seized at Cairo airport.
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She said that four works by Kundera, including “The Unbearable Lightness of Being†and “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,†were barred from the fair.
Germany’s Al-Jamal publishers said the authorities had seized copies of Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri’s autobiographical “For Bread Alone†which contains references to teenage sex and drug use and is banned in several Arab countries.
The taboo-busting “Love in Saudi Arabia†by young novelist Ibrahim Badi has also been banned, along with “Women of Sand and Myrrh†by Lebanon’s Hanan al-Sheikh.
The story deals with the position of women in the Gulf and mentions homosexuality.
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link (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2008/January/theworld_January796.xml§ion=theworld&col=)
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This just in: The two top selling books at the Egypt Book Fair:
(http://tinyurl.com/28s8fm)
(http://www.hyscience.com/archives/believe_it_or_else.jpg)