The "cemetery of banned books" in Kuwait



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Last August, the Kuwaiti government officially recognized the ban of more than 4,300 books since 2014. Last Friday, Kuwaiti artist Mohammad Saraf staged an official funeral ceremony of these books to protest against the death penalty. ;prohibition. He installed the "Forbidden Books Cemetery" on an area adjacent to the annual Kuwait Book Fair.

In more than 200 tombstones, Sarah has engraved works such as "Divine Comedy" by Dante, "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Viktor Hugo, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marques. The ban also includes children's books such as "The Little Mermaid" in a Disney children's blanket, encyclopedias, political or religious books. In front of the locals, Sarah placed the office of a librarian on whom stood her seal, symbolizing the control of the books permitted in the country, in accordance with the official "rule of good book".

Last updated: Wednesday 28 November 2018, 09:11

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