RIYADH: Saudi establishment have forbidden hundreds of books, counting works by famous Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish, as part of an onslaught on publications thouight threatening to the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia clamped down on opposition subsequent the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, from which it has been mainly spared, and has taken on a progressively more challenging posture towards the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups it has extended viewed as a hazard to its safety.
The local Okaz daily reported Sunday that managers at the Riyadh International Book Fair had taken away around 10,000 copies of 420 books during the display.
Confined news website Sabq.org reported that members of the kingdom’s sacred police had protested at “offensive way” in works by the late Darwish, extensively careful one of the most Arab poets, imperative organizers to remove all his books from the fair, which finished Friday.
The sacred police often interfere to put into effect the kingdom's strict traditional values, but the shift to ban so many works was seen as unprecedented.
Comparable action was taken next to works by Iraq's most well-known contemporary poet, Badr Shaker Al Sayyab, and one more Iraqi poet, Abdul Wahab Al Bayati, as well as those by Palestinian lyricist Muin Bseiso.
The fair's organizing group also banned a book entitled with, when will the Saudi Woman Drive a Car? By Abdullah Al Alami.
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