Minister Storms Out of Ceremony to Protest Mahmoud Darwish Poem
Far-right Minister of Culture Miri Regev walked out of the Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ACUM) awards ceremony Monday evening, June 12, following the organization’s decision to allow an artist to pay tribute to a poem written by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. Singer Mira Awad, who received an award for promoting Arab creativity…