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Saudi Publishing House Under Fire for Translating Israeli Book
(Ynet News) Roi Kais - The Saudi-owned Madarak publishing house based in Dubai sparked an online campaign that harshly critiqued its "act of normalization," after publishing an Arabic translation of an Israeli researcher's book. Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape by Prof. Joshua Teitelbaum, published in English in 2010, deals with relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, focusing on issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The London-based Asharq Al-Awsat backed the publishing house, claiming that the Arabic translation of the book promoted mutual understanding. It further claimed that books by Israeli authors had been published in the past and distributed in Arab countries, and published an image with covers of books by Israeli authors that were translated to Arabic.