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In a very long article Ibrahim Sa’ada criticized and blamed all the parties involved in the recent controversy about the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed," which provoked unprecedented riots in the Azhar University.
In a quick interview with the Egyptian Minister of Culture, he confirmed that he understood that the Labor Party is now in charge of the preaching mission for extremism. Regarding the statement of Ahmed Omar Hashem, in which he urged the burning of the book, the Minister was shocked, as it reveals...
In a statement signed by 60 scholars from the Azhar University, the General Organization for Books and the Ministry of Culture were accused of releasing blasphemous publications which attack Islamic ideology and prophet Mohammed’s biography.
Aslan, who works for the authority of Cultural Centers, was accused by the State Security Prosecutor of reprinting the novel " A Banquet for the Seaweed."
The State Security Prosecutor held investigations with the a leading person working with the Ministry of Culture. This person is said to be responsible for the release of the novel "Banquet for the Seaweed".
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, reiterated his previous statement on the controversial novel and asserted that the allegation that the Ministry could approve such publications is outrageous and may be a sort of political profiteering. Similar articles appeared in Al-Ahram (p.1), Al-Akhbar (...
Despite the unanimity in condemning the clear insulting to God and prophet Mohammed within the novel of "Banquette for Seaweed", some voices are standing behind the ill treated word of freedom of creation to defend the violation of values and the mess. "Creativity is unlimited, and writers can go...
It is neither Poetry nor creativity, it is only vulgarity that humiliates God and the prophets using sexual conversation and expressions. This is how the writer described the anthology of "Woman who likes the sea" and the novel of "The mint aroma" which the Ministry of Culture issued in the series...
The news paper asked the Minister of Culture to resign as a way to apologize for printing and financing tens of books that are against morality, including "Banquette for Seaweed", and for giving many contradictory declarations.
Mohammed Al-Qudusi asked the intellectuals, in a long article, to sign a statement which condemns the officials of the Ministry of Culture whom he described as "Freedom enemies and creation falsifiers", after their intervention in the poetry anthology of Abdel Wahab Dawoud. They add and eliminate...

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