The Norma Khouri 'Forbidden Love' controversy

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This is pretty interesting -- Khouri's book, based on my reading some key chapters in the library copy, was a striking and sorrowful tale of a friend in Jordan slain by her family in an honor killing over the friend's dating a Christian man. Apparently it was a big bestseller in Australia in particular, where Khouri now lives.

However, the Sydney Morning Herald has published some stories saying it was all a hoax, and the book is at least being temporarily withdrawn:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3925791.stm

The most recent SMH story up interviews a friend of hers from Chicago:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/26/1090693899061.html?oneclick=true

Intriguing. The I, Rigoberta Menchu controversy of this decade?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I'm suprised no one took up on this thread. Maybe it was only news in Aus? Anyway. Khoury disappeared for a while, with the media finding all this damaging stuff about her and her publisher saying they were going to drop her if she didnt show (she had a 2nd book on the way out)...

Now she's showed up and admitted some of the accustations and the second books been dropped. Weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Islamophobia is a THE publishing success story of the year

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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