Arabian Nights too hot for some lawyers in Egypt
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Arabian Nights, the classic collection of folk tales of magic lanterns and flying carpets also known as One Thousand And One Nights, has been deemed obscene by a group of Islamist lawyers.
The literary classic features characters such as Scheherazade, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, known to children worldwide.
The group asked for the book to be banned after a recent republication. The lawyers read the tales as a call to “vice and sin” and object to its publication on the basis of depiction of sexuality and use of offensive language, according to Al Arabiya.
The GOCP Supreme Publication Committee, which decided to print another edition after the first one was sold out, said in a statement that Arabian Nights was an invaluable cultural heritage that could not be confiscated.
A Writers’ Union spokesman said the lawyers were behaving “like the Taliban”.
Source: Telegraph
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