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Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Arab News, an English-language newspaper published in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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  • A Saudi Asks, "Why?"

    Series: Islam
    2002-10-22
    A journalist visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently asked me why five out of six students he interviewed at King Saud University still believe that Al Qaida was not responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in America last year? Dealing with this question is increasingly frustrating for me, because I have run out of plausible explanations. ... read
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