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Crime (and censorship) in Ramallah

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Palestinian author Abbad Yahya

Published: 14 February 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Palestinian Authority bans novel for ‘threatening morality and public decency’ – Amira Hass – Haaretz 10.02.17
The ban and book confiscations have evoked criticism and condemnation by Palestinian novelists and poets, artists, art critics, jurists and social activists on both sides of the Green Line.

Palestinian writer afraid to go home amid uproar over novel – Mohammed Daraghmeh – The Times of Israel 10.02.17
His novel, ’Crime in Ramallah’, uses ‘sexual terms,’ challenges attitudes toward fanaticism, religious extremism and homosexuality, and critiques PA.

And see: ‘In Between’ – a window into changing lives of Israeli Palestinians February 4, 2017

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