Date of source: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The head of
the Egyptian Writers’
Union, Muhammad Salmāwī, revealed a surprise when he announced
that Najīb Mahfūz’s
banned novel ’Children of the Alley’ would be published
within weeks.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
French publishing house Freire Geist made use of the events of September 11 to associate the picture of the two towers of the World Trade Center and a play by Voltaire titled “Fanaticism,” in which Voltaire tarnished the image of Islam. It is as if Freire Geist is trying to arbitrarily stick the...