Ashraf Fayadh
[Best of 2015] The Year in Art Crime
From ISIS's trail of cultural destruction to the Art Basel stabbing, here's the darker side of art.
Poet Ashraf Fayadh Is Appealing the Death Sentence Handed Down by a Saudi Court
Ashraf Fayadh friends and family say that the poet—who is accused of apostasy and writing love poems that were allegedly anti-Islamic—is formally fighting his sentence.
Saudi-Arabiens kunstverden er rystet over digteren Ashraf Fayadhs dødsdom
Ashraf Fayadh er anklaget for blasfemi, for at have skrevet en bog, som angiveligt indeholder ateistiske tekster, og for at have ytret blasfemiske kommentarer på en café i 2013.
The Da Vinci Forgery: Last Week in Art
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The "Tears of Joy" Emoji Is the "Word of the Year": Last Week in Art
It was chosen, the Oxford Dictionary announced, "as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood and preoccupations of 2015.”
The Saudi Arabian Artist in Jail For Having Long Hair
Soon after Ashraf Fayadh exposed an instance of police brutality in Saudi Arabia, he was arrested and imprisoned for having a messy coiffe.
Saudi Religious Police Don't Like Being Filmed Beating People Up
They jailed an artist for it under the pretence that he'd broken the law by having long hair.