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Lebanese general security but created an unprecedented media backlash against the bureau. Therefore, in May 2014 the general security confiscated Bourjeily's passport in an obscure administrative procedure called "subduing of critics" but they backed down on their decision 48 hours later after Lebanese general public outcry. For his activism against censorship on the arts in Lebanon he was nominated for the 2014 "Freedom of Expression" award held annually at the Barbican Center in London by Index on Censorship.
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is an Emmy-nominated writer and director of both theater and film. His work has traveled the worldwide festival circuits and won him many awards of which the 2017 Dubai
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In 2012, he was chosen by CNN as one of 8 leading cultural lights from
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Just months after the civil strife in
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His most recent play entitled "Beirut
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