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August 13, 2007


Syria Hampers Ali Farzat Collection?

imageThere's only the one article saying so, and it's a summary of a blog citing a newspaper report, and the subject in question is I believe a 2005 book which doesn't exactly scan with this being breaking news, but if all of that is on the up and up Syrian authorities may be disrupting the distribution of Ali Farzat's A Pen of Damascus Steel. Farzat, a Syrian cartoonist currently publishing through Al-Watan in Kuwait, has a history of criticizing the lack of freedom of expression in parts of the Arab world.
 
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