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criticized the Union for its lack of solidarity with imprisoned or persecuted Arab writers and for what he described as its long-standing cooperation with the former government of Iraqi leader
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In 2010, the Union published a list of the "100 Best Arabic novels," although the list in fact contained 105 entries. It ranked Egyptian author
17: 151:. This prompted widespread criticism among Arab intellectuals, with Hazem Sagieh, an editor at London-based Arabic daily 337: 264: 177:(SWA). Based in London, the SWA described itself as a "democratic alternative" to the Arab Writers Union. 342: 174: 57: 8: 116: 194: 239: 170: 124: 282: 173:, Syrian writers, some of them living in Syria and others in exile, founded the 163: 104: 195:"Search Results for "Arab Writers Union" – مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية" 331: 148: 155:, describing the Arab Writers Union as "remnants of a Stalinist past." 159: 89: 97: 52: 136: 135:
On 27 January 1995, following Syrian pressure, it was announced in
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that the Arab Writers Union had expelled the Syrian poet
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in 1993 that was attended by Israeli foreign minister
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Arab Writers' Union
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Official website
Hanna Mina
Cairo
Abu Dhabi
Naguib Mahfouz
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Sonallah Ibrahim
Damascus
Adunis
Spain
Shimon Peres
Najem Wali
Saddam Hussein
civil war in Syria
Syrian Writers Association
"Search Results for "Arab Writers Union" – مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية"
"كلمة رئيس الاتجاد"
"Arab Writers Union"
"Arabs Split on Cultural Ties to Israel"
"Najem Wali: The dictator's orphans (31/01/2007) - signandsight"
"Syrian writers establish independent writers' union"
Categories
Writers' organizations
Arabic literature

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