Hamid Dabashi: An American and an Arab Walk Into a Saudi Consulate….One (Thomas Friedman) Come Out Smiling and Writes About Saudi Reforms, the Other (Jamal Khashoggi) is Tortured, Dismembered, and Never Seen Again. What Can We Learn from This?
An American and an Arab journalist walk into a Saudi Consulate On Thomas Friedman, ‘his friend’ Jamal Khashoggi, and our duty to expose the malicious ignorance of imperial messengers. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The New York Times is the barometer of the health and sickness …
