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Dorit Rabinyan’s novel which is barred from the curriculum on sale at a book shop on Thursday (AP)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 2, 2016 | Middle East
The decision by the Israeli minister of education to ban a novel that revolves around a love story between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from the Israeli high school curriculum has sparked a fierce debate about how Israeli society deals with its cultural...
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An Iranian clergyman speaks to a woman at his stall in Tehran’s 26th International Book Fair, at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 1, 2013.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
by Amir Taheri | Nov 11, 2015 | Opinion
Does a seminar on reforming the meter and rhyme schemes of Persian poetry violate “Islamic values” and threaten the foundations of the Islamic Republic in Iran? That is the view of the Islamic Court in Tehran which last month sentenced two poets to 9 and 11 years in...
