Ibdaa (magazine)

Ibdaa has been banned several times.^[4] For instance, it was banned following the publication of a painting portraying Adam and Eve naked.^[4] The other ban occurred after publishing a study about Jewish culture.^[4]

In April 2007, the magazine was banned and its license was revoked by the Egyptian State Council Administrative Court on 7 April 2009 due to the publication of a poem entitled "On the balcony of Leila Murad" by Egyptian poet Hilmi Salem (1951–2012).^[1][7][8] The poem in which God was likened to an Egyptian peasant was regarded by the court as "blasphemous".^[9][10] The petition to the court was made by the authorities at Al Azhar University.^[9] However, the earlier prints of the poem in Salem's 2006 anthology and in Al Wafd daily and Al Arabi magazine did not cause any stir.^[11] In addition to the ban, the magazine was harshly criticized by Hamdi Rizq writing for Almasry Alyoum, a daily in Egypt, due to its publication of the poem.^[12] The ban and license revoking were reversed on appeal in June 2009.^[13][14]

List of magazines in Egypt