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KSA cinemas back for Eid
- Saudi Arabia: Wednesday, November 02 - 2005 at 08:19
Thirty years after cinemas were banned in Saudi Arabia, the big screen is making a modest comeback this Eid holiday with the screening of children's cartoons, reported Reuters. Religious scholars hold that any dispiction of the human form is forbidden in Islam and see the US dominated film industry as immoral; moderate muslims think otherwise and point to the widespread availability of satellite TV.
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Peter J. CooperWednesday, November 02 - 2005 at 08:19 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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This article was updated on Tue Mar 27 2007.
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