Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
Jordanian poet Ibrāhīm Nasr Allāh faces trial and possibly
imprisonment for a
collection of poems that were first published 23 years ago, because of accusations that
they may instigate
commotion and undermine the country’s stability.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah was accused of defaming Islam by using the Invocation [i.e. saying in the name of... which is associated in people’s minds with "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful"] as a title for his recent anthology, "In the Name of the Mother, the Son,"...