“After pulling out of the Dubai literature festival last week, Margaret Atwood is now hoping to take part in a debate on censorship to be hosted at the festival via video link-up. … Atwood, a vice president of International PEN, withdrew from the festival after learning that [Geraldine Bedell’s novel, ‘The Gulf Between Us,’] which features a gay sheikh, had apparently been blacklisted by festival organisers.” But appearances were deceiving.