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Australia arts fest apologises for barring Palestinian writer
Gulf Today
|January 18, 2026
A major Australian arts festival has apologised to a Palestinian Australian writer after disinviting her over her remarks about Israel, sparking a controversy that forced the cancellation of this year’s Adelaide Writers’
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Week.The Adelaide Festival Board retracted the decision to bar academic and novelist Randa Abdel-Fattah, inviting her back for next year's event and apologising to her “unreservedly for the harm the Adelaide Festival Corporation has caused her.”
This story is from the January 18, 2026 edition of Gulf Today.
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