How to Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper

By sheila | Apr 17, 2006

Fawaz Turki- erstwhile columnist of the Saudi-based Arab News- on the finer points of how to blow your career in the Middle East.

What mattered was that I had committed one of the three cardinal sins an Arab journalist must avoid when working for the Arab press: I criticized the government.

The other two? Bringing up Islam as an issue and criticizing, by name, political leaders in the Arab or Islamic world for their brazen excesses, dismal failures and blatant abuses.

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1 Comment so far
  1. Shabana April 17, 2006 8:46 pm

    yep, criticism will do that ..

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