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Azerbaijan: Controversial Book Banned

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 @ 07:10 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Armenia, Azerbaijan
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Ethnicity, LGBT, Literature, War & Conflict
Languages:: English

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Unzipped: Gay Armenia reports that the controversial book, Artush and Zaur, which details a love story between two men — one Armenian and one Azerbaijani — has been banned in Baku. The blog also says that bookshops selling the novel have been closed down.

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artmika

According to reports from the owner(http://nigar.livejournal.com/275450.html), bookshops were reopened. No other details are provided.

# 2009-03-12 at 11:14 am

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