أبو نواس
While his works were in circulation freely until the early years of the twentieth century, the first modern censored edition of his works was published in Cairo in 1932. In January 2001, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture ordered the burning of some 6,000 copies of books of Nuwas's homoerotic poetry. In the Saudi "Global Arabic Encyclopedia" entry for Abu Nuwas, all mentions of pederasty were omitted.