A tip from my brother, Stu in Phoenix:
Fawaz Turki in The Washington Post:
How to Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper
I was unceremoniously fired this month by my Saudi newspaper, a leading English-language daily called Arab News.
It didn’t matter that I had been the senior columnist on the op-ed page for nine years or that my work was quoted widely in the European and American media, including this paper. 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….