"Abu Dhabi competition excludes Palestinian veiled poet | Maan News Agency March 27, 2013 Gaza City (Ma'an) – A Palestinian veiled woman from the Gaza Strip refused to remove the veil from her face and was banned from a poetry competition in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Afaf Al-Hasasneh was accepted to participate in the competition and the judge chose her to move for the second phase of the competition but one of the judges had a condition that she had to remove the veil over her face, said the Palestinian literature union. The union said it respected Afaf's decision not to remove the veil. Afaf withdrew from the competition ""with dignity"" and flew back to the Gaza Strip, the union said. Copyright © 2013 Ma'an News Agency."
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