“The winner, Boualem Sansal, … was scheduled to receive the Prix du Roman Arabe (the Arab Novel Prize) for his book Rue Darwin (“Darwin Street”). But in May, he spoke at a literary festival in Israel, and afterward Hamas … said he had committed ‘an act of treason against the Palestinian people’.” The 22 Arab diplomats in Paris who, as a group, sponsor the award promptly cancelled the ceremony and withheld the €15,000 in prize money.