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'''Artist:''' Haydar Haydar
'''Artist:''' Haydar Haydar


 
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Egypt’s Socialist Labor Party, Egypt's Islamic group and the rector of Al-Azhar University
 
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Egypt’s Socialist Labor Party; Egypt's Islamist group; the rector of Al-Azhar University
 
 


'''Dates of Action:''' 2000
'''Dates of Action:''' 2000


'''Location:''' Egypt
'''Location:''' Egypt


'''Description of Artwork:''' In 1983 Haydar Haydar published a novel in Syria called “Banquet for Seaweed”. In the novel, a character says, “The divine Bedouin laws and the teaching of the Koran [are all] shit”.  <P>


'''The Incident:''' In 2000, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture reissued Haydar’s novel “Banquet for Seaweed” as part of a modern Arab classics series that it was sponsoring. In a distorting review of the Egyptian edition of Haydar’s novel in “Al-Shaab”, a publication of Egypt’s Socialist Labor Party, the columnist Mohamed Abbas called the book an insult to Islam.  This resulted in one of the biggest riots Egypt had seen in the prior ten years. The police were called out to calm the protestors, which they did with tear gas, baton charges and rubber bullets.  <P>


'''Description of Artwork:''' In 1983, Haydar Haydar published a novel in Syria called “A Banquet for Seaweed”. In the novel, a character says, “The divine Bedouin laws and the teaching of the Koran [are all] shit”.   <P>
'''Results of Incident:''' Legal action was taken against the government officials responsible for publishing the novel and there were calls for the assassination, or execution by beheading, of the novelist. In addition, the rector of Al-Azhar University called for a public burning of the book in a public place.  The primary reason for this uproar is that Abbas left out an ellipsis in a passage he quoted from the novel. This omission resulted in the words Koran and shit being placed next to each other, and since it is unnecessary to use the verb “to be” in Arabic (they say, in other words, the sky blue rather than the sky is blue) Abbas’s omission made it look like the author was calling the Koran a piece of shit. <P>
 
 
 
'''The Incident:''' In 2000, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture reissued Haydar’s novel “A Banquet for Seaweed” as part of a modern Arab classics series that it was sponsoring. In a distorting review of the Egyptian edition of Haydar’s novel, “al-Shaab”, a publication of Egypt’s Socialist Labor Party, the columnist Muhammad Abbass called the book an insult to Islam, resulting in one of the biggest riots Egypt had seen in the prior ten years. The police were called out to calm the protestors, which they did with tear gas, baton charges and rubber bullets. <P>


'''Source:''' http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/2001/seaweed.htm, http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2274 and http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/483/eg13.htm


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'''Results of Incident:''' Legal action was taken against the government officials responsible for publishing the novel and there were calls for the assassination—or execution by beheading—of the novelist. In addition, the rector of Al-Azhar University called for a public burning of the book in a public place.  The primary reason for this uproar is that Abbas left out an ellipsis in a passage he quoted from the novel. This omission resulted in the words Koran and shit being placed next to each other, and since it is unnecessary to use the verb “to be” in Arabic—they say, in other words, the sky blue rather than the sky is blue—Abbas’ omission made it look like the author was calling the Koran a piece of shit. <P>
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'''Source:''' website:  http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:QsaM1Gg3yw0J:faculty.ncc.edu/LinkClick.aspx%3Flink%3Dhaydar%2Bhaydar%2Bpacket%2Bassignment.doc%26tabid%3D2015%26mid%3D2331+Haydar+Haydar+egypt+writer&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 ; and, Democracy Frontline at: htt
 
 
 
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Revision as of 15:30, 20 October 2011

Date: 2000

Region: Egypt

Subject: Religious, Political, Economic, and Social

Medium: Literature

Artist: Haydar Haydar

Confronting Bodies: Egypt’s Socialist Labor Party, Egypt's Islamic group and the rector of Al-Azhar University

Dates of Action: 2000

Location: Egypt

Description of Artwork: In 1983 Haydar Haydar published a novel in Syria called “Banquet for Seaweed”. In the novel, a character says, “The divine Bedouin laws and the teaching of the Koran [are all] shit”.

The Incident: In 2000, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture reissued Haydar’s novel “Banquet for Seaweed” as part of a modern Arab classics series that it was sponsoring. In a distorting review of the Egyptian edition of Haydar’s novel in “Al-Shaab”, a publication of Egypt’s Socialist Labor Party, the columnist Mohamed Abbas called the book an insult to Islam. This resulted in one of the biggest riots Egypt had seen in the prior ten years. The police were called out to calm the protestors, which they did with tear gas, baton charges and rubber bullets.

Results of Incident: Legal action was taken against the government officials responsible for publishing the novel and there were calls for the assassination, or execution by beheading, of the novelist. In addition, the rector of Al-Azhar University called for a public burning of the book in a public place. The primary reason for this uproar is that Abbas left out an ellipsis in a passage he quoted from the novel. This omission resulted in the words Koran and shit being placed next to each other, and since it is unnecessary to use the verb “to be” in Arabic (they say, in other words, the sky blue rather than the sky is blue) Abbas’s omission made it look like the author was calling the Koran a piece of shit.

Source: http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/2001/seaweed.htm, http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2274 and http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/483/eg13.htm

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