“The response to his novel is not only disproportionate; it is entirely out of place.”
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Ashraf Fayadh Wins 2017 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression
According to organizers, the award exists “to honour the courage of writers committed to freedom of expression despite facing countless challenges and risks.”
Poet Dunya Mikhail on Kidnapped Iraqi Writer Afrah Shawqi and Elusive ‘Freedom of Expression’
In this essay, Afrah said that “freedom of expression” was the phrase most frequently used by Iraqi politicians post-2003, “yet our lives, we journalists, are risked every time we criticize any head, even if it were the head of onion.”
Leading Kuwaiti Writers Saud Alsanousi and Bothayna al-Essa on Pushing Back Against a Season of Censorship
“There was a time when we’d hoped that the state might sponsor and encourage young writers, because there are quite a number of young people at work writing novels. But today I’m not asking for any support from the state; all we ask is that they leave us in peace, and that we write without interference or guidance or censorship.”
Sayed Elsisi’s Book ‘Post Prose Poem’ Reportedly Banned in Lebanon
“I cannot really imagine how such academic book can be that dangerous because of examining the erotic experience in the modern Arabic poetry?”
On #BannedBooksWeek, Why Edward William Lane’s Arabic Lexicon Currently on ‘Disapproved’ List
“Texas, Quartz notes, has one of the highest incarceration rates in the U.S., with .5% of the state’s population in prison.”
Make Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
“Let us be loud enough that he hears us.”
Ashraf Fayadh Poem Read Before UN Human Rights Council
“We have of course, raised Fayadh’s case with this Council before, as we have been raising, like many, the cases of Raif Badawi, Waleed Abulkhair, Ali al-Nimr and others.”
PEN America: ‘Detention of Poet Dareen Tatour Signals Worrying Escalation in Israeli Repression’
“Her detention, one in a string of recent arrests of writers and journalists, signals a worrying expansion in Israeli law enforcement policy to silence views the government deems unsavory.”
May 12, International Day of Readings for Egyptian Novelist Ahmed Naji
“The readings aim to show solidarity with Ahmed and to raise awareness about his current situation and that of writers and journalists across Egypt.”
Dareen Tatour: ‘I Will Not Leave My Country’
“They signed for me
And turned me into
A file, forgotten”
Musical Group Mashrou’ Leila Banned from Jordan, Allegedly for Endorsing ‘Gender Equality and Sexual Freedom’
“We denounce the systemic prosecution of advocates of sexual and religious freedom.
“We denounce the censorship of artists anywhere in the world.”
