In April 2007, the magazine was banned and its license was revoked by the Egyptian State Council Administrative Court on 7 April 2009 due to the publication of a poem "On the balcony of Leila Murad" by Egyptian poet Hilmi Salem (1951-2012).[1][5][6] The poem in which God was likened to an Egyptian peasant was regarded by the court as "blasphemous".[7][8] The petition to the court was made by the authorities at Al Azhar University.[7] However, the earlier prints of the poem in Salem's 2006 anthology and in Al Wafd daily and Al Arabi magazine did not cause any stir.[9] In addition to the ban, the magazine was harshly criticized by Hamdi Rizq writing for Almasry Alyoum, a daily in Egypt, due to its publication of the poem.[10] The ban and license revoking were reversed on appeal in June 2009.[11][12]