The painting assignment

A publisher from India (or wherever) sends the sample magazine, the Muttawa read it and blackened the objectionable parts and passed on the marked copy to the, lets call them ‘blackeners’. When the bulk stock came, they sat and continued blackening all the copies as per the sample... . ..After a time in Saudi, I had gotten used to the blackening of images and texts with what are, I am sure the blackest of black ink markers. . .More. . .