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Saudi Arabia lifts decades-long ban on cinemas
Saudi Arabia on Monday lifted a decades-long ban on cinemas, part of a series of social reforms by the powerful crown prince that are shaking up the ultra-conservative kingdom. “Commercial cinemas will be allowed to operate in the kingdom as of early 2018, for the first time in more than 35 years,” the culture and information ministry said in a statement, adding that the government will begin licensing cinemas immediately.
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Ok but which films, will people even go, will the imams just declare it haram and who is checking to see how it's actually happening?
The king will have a home theater installed in several of his palaces, and will in fact screen Happy Gilmore several times in between beating servants to death for imagined slights.
there's quite some Egyptian films, which might be culturally/religiously more OK. As for specific films: just work the way any state with too much power does, make a censorship committee that either blocks films or censors specific parts
I doubt that'll work. Egypt is more liberal than the Saudis (which I know is funny since everyone is liberal in comparison) but even in Egypt they have problems with people pushing societies norms and controversy prone. They'd probably just go with ignoring them.