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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

No cinemas but Saudi to host film festival

Saudi Arabia, which has no cinemas, is to stage a film festival in May, according to a local newspaper. Though movie screenings were banned in the early 1980s, permission has been given to the Saudi society of arts and culture and a literary club in the eastern city of Dammam to show Arabic films over a five-day period. Men and women will be seated in different halls during the screenings. (Via CBC)

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