https://fd.tllester.info/tags/arab-network-for-research-and-publishing/Recent content in Arab-Network-for-Research-and-Publishing on freeDimensionalHugoen-usSun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/palestinian-poet-mahmoud-darwishs-books-removed-from-riyadh-international-book-fair/Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/palestinian-poet-mahmoud-darwishs-books-removed-from-riyadh-international-book-fair/<p><img src="https://fd.tllester.info/freedimensional/images/Darwish-300x224.jpg" alt="Darwish">Just a few days after all the works by Saudi publisher <a href="http://arablit.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/saudi-publisher-booted-from-riyadh-international-book-fair/">Arab Network for Research and Publishing were removed from the Riyadh International Book Fair</a> for violating the Kingdom’s laws, the works of globally celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish caused protests and <a href="http://arabic.cnn.com/entertainment/2014/03/13/ksa-darwich-fair?hpt=continous">have reportedly been withdrawn from the fair and are not to be sold</a>:</p> <p>Numerous news sources were reporting the removal of the books, while images and videos circulating on Twitter purported to <a href="https://twitter.com/ahmed/status/444083550024126464">show the protests against Darwish’s ouevre</a> as well as the <a href="https://twitter.com/saudi_anbae/status/443862597347983360">packing-up of Darwish’s books</a>.</p>