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Saudi woman poet lashes out at clerics in 'Arabic Idol'

Instead of Jon and Edward dressed as the Ghostbusters, it featured a single woman covered from head to toe in black, declaiming traditional Arabic poetry from a podium. And rather than Cheryl Cole or Dannii Minogue in a revealing designer outfit, the judging panel consists of five sober-looking men with bushy moustaches, and a similarly all-male audience.

The X Factor it isn’t – but Abu Dhabi’s live poetry talent contest, The Million’s Poet, which is broadcast across the Arab world, features something far more subversive than its British equivalent could ever manage

—>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-woman-poet-lashes-out-at-clerics-in-arabic-idol-1926176.html