a poetry reading with Muzaffar and several other Saudi poets. On the evening of the event, [Ibrahim] Al-Humayed received an anonymous text message threatening him with death unless he canceled it. The manager ignored these threats, and held the event as planned, but he later reported that some young Islamists in the audience had disrupted the reading by shouting and making a racket, while others had passed notes to the organizers stating that women may not speak in public or participate in cultural events alongside men.from The Middle East Media Research Institute: Extremists in Saudi Arabia Set Fire to Culture Club to Prevent Woman Poet's Public Appearance
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