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Banned and restricted books in Lebanon
8 titles have been banned or restricted in Lebanon, recorded across 8 dated, source-cited events, most often for religious / blasphemy.
Titles
8
Ban events
8
Top reason
Religious / blasphemy
Decades active
5
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 2003 | 1 |
| Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 1979 | 1 |
| The Story of Zahra | Hanan al-Shaykh | 1980 | 1 |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 2000 | 1 |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 1947 | 1 |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | 1 |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | 1923 | 1 |
| Grover's Eight Nights of Light | Jodie Shepherd | — | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Religious / blasphemy
- 4
- Political content
- 3
- Sexual content
- 2
- Race / colonialism
- 1
By decade
1970s1
1980s3
1990s1
2000s1
2010s2
Documented bans
All 8 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Grover's Eight Nights of Light2017
Persepolis2011
The Da Vinci Code2004
The God of Small Things1997
The Diary of a Young Girl1986
The Prophet1981
The Story of Zahra1980
Sophie's Choice1979
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.