This is Beirut, 02/01 18:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah have banned four organizations accused of affiliation with the Turkish-blacklisted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), activists said Thursday, denouncing the move as "political". The four organizations include two feminist groups and a media production house, according to the METRO center for ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-10 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A historic ruling by the Delhi High Court has officially lifted India’s longstanding ban on The Satanic Verses, the novel by British-American author Salman Rushdie. The decision, rooted in a legal technicality, effectively nullifies the import restriction imposed in 1988 due to the lack of any tangible record of the original ban order. The ban ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-08 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The organizers of a film festival in Istanbul announced its cancellation on Thursday in protest, following local authorities' ban on the screening of the film Queer, starring former "James Bond" actor Daniel Craig. "A few hours before the opening, authorities in the Kadikoy district informed us that the screening of Queer, scheduled for the ...