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'''Artist:''' Haydar Haydar | '''Artist:''' Haydar Haydar (b. 1936) | ||
'''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 Islamic group and the rector of Al-Azhar University | ||
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'''Location:''' Egypt | '''Location:''' Egypt | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' In 1983 Haydar Haydar published a novel in Syria called | '''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> | ||
'''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 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> | '''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 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> | ||
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