Yoda Appears in Saudi Arabia Textbooks Next to Late King Faisal, Education Ministry Apologizes
May the farce be with you
A tweeted image of a superimposed Yoda with late Saudi King Faisal appeared on Saudi textbooks.Credit: Twitter, @SilentRuins
Students in Saudi Arabia opened up their textbooks this week to discover that the force was with late King Faisal while he signed the UN Charter in 1945.
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Saudi Education Minister Ahmed al-Issa apologized for the mistake, as reported by the BBC, saying a committee was looking into the "unintended mistake".
The historic photo of the leader was accidentally printed in a United Nations lesson with a superimposed Jedi master Yoda sitting beside the king.
Saudi artist Shaweesh created the image in a past series, who reportedly stressed that his work meant no offense to the late leader and rather served as a character assessment, suggesting that they are both "wise, strong and always calm."
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