Facing Death Threats And A Ban On His Novel, A Palestinian Author Flees
April 1, 20178:04 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
Abbad Yahya is used to controversy. For the last five years, the young Palestinian novelist has been writing books that have been criticized for including sex and politically unpopular opinions.
Yahya, who's 28, expected similar complaints about his fourth novel, Crime in Ramallah, published in Arabic late last year, which chronicles the lives of three young men affected by a woman's murder in the city where the Palestinian Authority has its headquarters.
"I thought the book may raise some noise and provoke writers, intellectuals or readers," he says. "But I was really shocked when I started to read what people are writing about me."
Continued: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/01/521094950/facing-death-threats-and-a-ban-on-his-novel-a-palestinian-author-flees
Hiding from the Palestinian Authority and others like that, not from Israel.
http://www.thetower.org/4809-novelist-in-hiding-after-palestinian-authority-bans-his-book/
