Saudi minister fired after textbook shows Yoda at UN signing ceremony
Saudi Arabia's under-secretary for curricula has been fired and exiled to Dagobah after an official Saudi social studies textbook included a photo of Jedi Master Yoda. In the photo, Yoda can be seen sitting next to Saudi Arabia's King Faisal at the 1945 ceremony that created the United Nations. The textbook page began circulating on social media last week.
The photograph was created by Saudi artist Abdullah Al Shehri, who goes by the nickname Shaweesh. He told the BBC that he hadn't meant any disrespect to King Faisal.
"The 2013 artwork, entitled United Nations (Yoda), is part of a series in which symbols of American pop culture-ranging from Captain America to Darth Vader-are superimposed onto archive photos of historical events," the BBC reports.
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