A Saudi woman has lost a two-year legal battle to marry a man who her family says is "religiously incompatible" with her because he plays the lute.

Activists are taking to the streets of Kuwait City to protest government censorship that has blacklisted more than 4,300 books in the last five years.

A province in Egypt has banned Disney cartoon characters from schools and wants them replaced with images of military heroes.

On 20 September, poet Dareen Tatour was released from prison after serving several years in detention and house arrest over one of her poems.

Theatre duo detained by Iranian authorities over a video trailer for their production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Israel’s public broadcaster has apologised to listeners after playing part of an opera by anti-Semitic German composer Richard Wagner.

On 31 July 2018, Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was sentenced to five months in prison on charges of inciting terrorism over a poem and online posts.

Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy was sentenced to three years in jail and fined for “publishing false news” and “insulting the army” through his poetry.

Freemuse calls for the release of poet Galal El-Behairy, who has been detained for 149 days, and for charges against him in two cases to be dropped.

An Iranian teenager was detained after she posted videos on social media of herself dancing to pop music without wearing a headscarf.