Guardian: Darren Aronofksy’s Noah could be banned across large swaths of the Middle East and parts of north Africa for contravening Islamic rules on the depiction of prophets, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The fantasy epic, which stars Russell Crowe as the biblical patriarch, has already been refused a licence by censors in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Egypt could well follow suit, with Jordan and Kuwait also expected to outlaw the film on religious grounds.
“Al-Azhar renews its rejection to [sic] the screening of any production that characterises Allah’s prophets and messengers and the companions of the Prophet [Muhammad],” said one of Egypt’s leading Sunni Muslim institutes in a statement.
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