News at Eleven: "Governments in our part of the world,"

he [Ibrahim Nasrallah] continues, "have sole ownership and full authority over all means of expression, from school books to the media." If a writer tries to work outside the system, "the government will try either to buy or punish him or her, as has been the case with myself and many others".

from The Guardian: Writing of Jordan, dreaming of Palestine

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