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Alaa Al Aswany, the best-selling Arabic-language novelist, has objected to the translation of one of his novels into Hebrew as protest of normalized relations between Israel and Arab nations, Agence France-Presse reported.

NOizeFest continues as protest of New Orleans's corporate Jazz Fest (which has foregone jazz almost entirely now in favor of Dave Matthews and Widespread Panic).

However, as Naples News reports, many of America's tricorn-hat-wearing activists plan on sitting out the 2014 election as protest of the more moderate positions taken up by many Republicans.

Republicans were united in opposition as a protest of Obama administration spending programs.

What had begun as a protest of a few hundred had become a large protest of a few thousand.

They decided to skip work for one day, as a protest of Holman's treacherous conditions.

Milano said the roll call went silent once in 1999 as a protest of the Yankees' postseason ticket policy that year.

Recently Stanford Univ., among others, announced it would no longer meet B.Y.U. in atheletic contests, as a protest of B.Y.U.'s discriminatory policies.

In 2003, she said, she decided to withhold her rent, which is under $600 a month, as a protest of sorts.

He and his fiancée, Elyse Buxbaum, have decided to wed in Connecticut this year in what they described as a protest of New York's failure to legalize gay marriage.

Harney County ranchers initially took sides with Bundy's militia because its action was presented as a protest of the treatment of local ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr and his son Steven.