A US publishing house recently announced that former National Security Adviser John Bolton decided to challenge the White House, and published a memoir that reveals what he considers to be abuses committed by President Donald Trump that go beyond the Ukraine issue, and he may also be held accountable.

Trump had previously warned Bolton against publishing his memoirs as long as he was president of the White House, and his attorneys attempted to dissuade Bolton from this by claiming that large portions of the book's material were classified as highly classified.

Bolton describes in his book - which came to 592 pages and entitled "The room in which this happened ... White House notes" - what he saw and monitored during 453 days of work next to Trump.

The book shed light on books that shook the thrones of rulers and other presidents, including Arab and foreign books that were banned by governments and banned from circulation, and authorities viewed them as acts of incitement, and some of these books were harmed and pursued against their background, and these books include:

The Sudanese Islamic Movement

On June 30, 1989 Sudanese TV announced that some Sudanese army officers had seized the government, led by Colonel Omar al-Bashir.

It seemed at first glance a military coup, but the days revealed the identity of the new rulers, the Islamic movement, and what remained behind the scenes of the preparations was a secret that the movement did not disclose until the book of the beloved Abdul Salam came.

Abdel-Salam's handwriting, "The Sudanese Islamic Movement .. The Spotlight of Darkness, Strings of Darkness" is documented for the first decade of the Islamic movement and its experience in governance, leading to the separation between the sons of the one movement and their distribution between an authority and an opposition, but the book was banned from publication in Sudan and was issued in Cairo .

"Everything is calm on the western front."

In the novel The German writer and fighter in World War I Erik Maria Remark (1898--1970) the author describes the pressures that soldiers were exposed to during the fighting on the war fronts, but the novel was considered prohibited in Nazi Germany 1933-1945, burned in public ceremonies, and stripped its author of nationality German to live as a refugee in Switzerland.

Muslims and Western Civilization

The book “Muslims and Western Civilization” by the Saudi scientist Dr. Safar Al-Hawali is a controversy inside and outside Saudi Arabia, because of its stinging criticism of the policies of the ruling family in the country, and despite some doubts about the ratio of this book to Al-Hawali, those close to him confirmed that it was he who actually wrote it.

The book included various topics, including: the definition of Islamic civilization and its preference for the world, where the author presented his opinion on politics, thought and freedoms, and he stopped on the issue of jihad and secularism, but what has sparked the most controversy are the three annexes in the book in which he presented letters to scholars, preachers and the Al Saud family.

Al-Hawali’s criticism of the rule of Al Saud was represented in his review - in detail - of the policies of Saudi rule in the economy, politics, social life and social relations, as well as an explanation of the religious situation in the Kingdom and its relationship to power.

On July 12, 2018, Saudi forces arrested Sheikh al-Qa`id Safar al-Hawali and his four children, three days after a number of pages of his book "Muslims and Western Civilization" were leaked in its electronic version.

Saudi books are forbidden

The Saudi authorities banned the book "The Kingdom from Within" for the British journalist and writer Robert Lacey in 2009, and the book talks about prominent stations that passed through Saudi Arabia from 1979 to 2009, and the book is considered a supplement to his first book that titled "The Kingdom", in which he covered the history of Saudi Arabia from its inception until In the year 1979.

Saudi Arabia also banned the book of the Saudi opposition, Madawi Al-Rasheed, "The predicament of reform in Saudi Arabia in the 21st century." After the book was banned, Saudi nationality was revoked from the author.

Salt Cities

Sixteen years ago, on January 24, 2004, the Saudi novelist, Abd al-Rahman Munif, who was considered one of the most important Arab writers and novelists in the 20th century, passed away, and he called Brawe a contemporary Arab peninsula, knowing that he had withdrawn his Saudi passport in 1963.

Munif worked as a journalist and economist, and fought political activity in Iraq, before he was expelled following the signing of the "Baghdad Pact" in 1955, and he was hostile to the Arab monarchy and the Republic alike after the 1967 defeat, a period after which he transformed to practice politics in another way by writing. Literary.

Munif became famous for his quintet "Salt Cities", which deals with pictures of life in the Arabian Peninsula with the beginning of the discovery of oil and the rapid transformations that changed the cities and villages of the island, including the refusal of the population to explore for oil and the use of power violence, the transformation of the desert into an oil field, and the struggles of the ruling family in the Arabian Peninsula , Monitoring the conditions of people, changing habits, places, forms of belonging and identity.

"Salt Cities" was prohibited from publishing in many Gulf countries, and the nationality of the writer was withdrawn to remain outside the Kingdom throughout his life, after the Saudi authorities considered the novel as incitement to the rule of Al Saud and carried a revolutionary tone.

"Anger Fall"

Only two years after the accident of the podium that wrote the scene of the assassination of Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, the late Egyptian writer and journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal recorded the story of the beginning and end of the era of Anwar Sadat in his book "The Fall of Wrath" that sparked a wave of anger and controversy that has not stopped until now. Heikal has presented In his book, this was the era of Sadat as a historical mistake.

The episode (17/22/2019) from "Out of Text" featured the book "The Fall of Wrath" by the late Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, and presented differing opinions about the content of the book that explains the reasons for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

1984

Many political regimes have stood against the novel "1984" by the British George Orwell, since they were published, but they have invaded international libraries, and the "Out of Text" program highlighted the impact that the novel has had on the world.

Orwell predicted in his novel - which he published in 1949 - the fate of the world after 4 decades, and he said that he will be ruled by large powers that share his space and residents and do not achieve their aspirations and dreams, but rather turn them into mere figures in the republics of the older brother who watches everything and knows everything where he represents Totalitarian rule.

The novel was banned in the Soviet Union since the 1950s, and the Soviet leader Stalin - who was familiar with literature - viewed it as a mockery of it, as well as in the United States and Britain for a limited time, and until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early nineties of the last century was not allowed to circulate this novel within Its limits.

The Soviet authorities also banned Orwell's novel "Animal Farm", and British publishers were afraid of publishing a novel critical of their ally in World War II, delaying the emergence of the novel, which met with massive global spread.

451 Fahrenheit

In his novel "451 Fahrenheit", American Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012) paints a frightening picture for the future, expecting the return of a painful era in America and the world, a stage that witnessed intellectual and cultural terrorism emanating from pre-existing political provisions and comprehensive positions.

The novel comes under the influence of what was known as the McCarthy era in America (relative to Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908 - 1957) at the beginning of the fifties of the last century during the Cold War and the accusations and chases that affected many writers, writers and politicians in the United States and excluded many of them on the charge of Communism.

In his novel, Bradbury - famous for his writings in science fiction literature - expresses the fear of tyrants of science and literature, and his hero portrayed the firefighter "Montag" while contemplating himself and his reality, looking at the wall on which the printed lists of millions of banned books were hung, books that caught fire and burned A great human legacy by his hose, which was spraying gasoline instead of water, and recovering what the educated Clariss asked him: Were the firefighters not preventing fires instead of fanning and igniting them?

In his novel, Bradbury refers to the role of literature in saving the world, by returning man to his humanity, and urging him to discover himself out of the depths of machine madness and brutality.

She sees him through his hero, "Montag", expressing nostalgia for human instinct, and through the state of the internal debate, he invokes realistic records about the feasibility of culture and literature or not.

"Dead Army General"

In 1963, Albanian writer Ismail Kadri published his first novel, "The Dead Army General", which critics did not easily receive in his country ruled by the dictator and communist leader Anwar Khojah who ruled his country for 40 years from the end of World War II until the death of 1985.

Qadri’s next novel “The Beast” he published in 1965 was banned, and he was forced to join the Labor Party, but after criticizing the authorities with a political poem he wrote in 1975 he was sent to the countryside to carry out punitive actions and prevented from publishing any novels again. Qadri was an opponent of totalitarian dictatorship, and he enriched his style Which combines tragedy and comedy Albanian and Balkan literature, and won international literary awards, including 2005 Booker Man.

The Albanian novelist made combating totalitarian dictatorship and extrapolating the history and heritage of the Balkans and Albania in particular, and denouncing the ugliness of horrific political crime the three main axes of his novelty.

Not only was it content with increasing credibility from day to day, but the richest narrative creativity with a poetic template based on a combination of tragic and comic style, and the amazing employment of Greek mythology and Shakespearean drama, and he was known for saying about the owner of "Macbeth", "Hamlet" and "Othello" that he had Shakespeare lived through the time of communist totalitarianism when he made the kingdoms of Scotland and Denmark the source of his writings on political crime.

My fate is the same as that which was shown in the novel "The Extra Supper" in 2009, how Dr. Guramito, his true neighbor, fell victim to a repressive ruling in which everyone spied on everyone, and executed all kinds of opponents, and because he was a Balkanian affiliation and humanist, he returned in his new book, "Provocation and other things" to The historical dispute between the Serbs and the Albanians through an Albanian border post is lost to the most basic elements of life and adjacent to the position of the enemy plunged into pleasures.