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Drawing on anecdotes and first-hand accounts, this book presents the history of censorship in Islamic societies. It also studies the question of freedom of expression and analyses the political direction and control of such freedoms in a number of countries, including Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Algeria and Afghanistan.

A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria, the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie, Taliban repression in Afghanistan, and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".

Egypt's "belle epoque" was a period of incredible extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and socially, of decadent Paris. The glamour and hedonism of the era reached its peak during the magnificent celebrations for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Kings and emperors, artists, writers and Europe's most sophisticated flocked to the dazzling new Cairo of sumptuous palaces and Paris...