Alaa Al-Aswany (The Yacoubian Building) is accused in the suit of "insulting the president, the Armed Forces, and judicial institutions" in a set of articles he wrote for the Arabic service of Deutsche Welle, Germany's equivalent of the BBC World Service. Al-Aswany, who currently lives in New York, responded that the lawsuit is "a clear […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM on March 21, 2019