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A panel of speakers participate in a video conference with Canadian Booker-prize winner Margaret Atwood (L-screen background), vice-president of PEN, the literary anti-censorship organisation, during the International Festival of Literature in Dubai on February 28, 2009. The first-ever Dubai literary festival opened on February 26 after sparking an international row over censorship when a British novel that features a gay sheikh was rejected. Atwood initially pulled out of the festival outraged by the alleged ban on the novel, but later decided to participate through a video conference in a hastily-arranged debate on censorship. The speakers are (L-R) Palestinian-Jordanian author Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ukrainian author Andrea Kurkov, English writer and former PEN president Rachel Billington, PEN secretary Eugene Schoulgin, Saudi female writer Rajaa al-Sanea and Vice Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and festival host Mohammed al-Murr. AFP PHOTO/HAIDER SHAH
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Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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HAIDER SHAH |
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28 Februarie 2009 |
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