The Art of the Ban and the Five year Repression of Wajeha Al Huwaider.
C Murray | 01.09.2008 09:31 | Culture | Gender | Repression | World
'The Vital Pathfinding Arab Elite is Persecuted and Cannot Advance Arab Society'
Wajeha is banned from writing for five years, interestingly, the issue of artist
repression In Saudi and specifically of this woman does not consider the notion
that a Writer can never be stopped from writing. But they may be persecuted and
have modes and methods of disemination removed. The title of her piece (above)
explains the 5% in societies that attempt to advance and evolve. She includes
the animal and microscopic world too.
Wajeha is banned from writing for five years, interestingly, the issue of artist
repression In Saudi and specifically of this woman does not consider the notion
that a Writer can never be stopped from writing. But they may be persecuted and
have modes and methods of disemination removed. The title of her piece (above)
explains the 5% in societies that attempt to advance and evolve. She includes
the animal and microscopic world too.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=1a&ID=1A31206 The Police removed a sign from her saying 'Give Women their Rights'
Her job, contacts and writing suffered but she continues to write and to create:
http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/writersunderthreat/saudiarabia/wajehaalhuwaider/ This morning a you tube of the writer has been sent around, in which the writer
again requests the lifting of her ban.
The Memri link has excerpts from her essays, on discrimination and woman
in Arabic Society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?V=Br1eDKkkvY0 Info and bio at :
http://www.ipwwc.org (and at links)
C Murray
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