Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
Middle East,Jamal Khashoggi,Saudi Arabia,Free Speech
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I was recently online looking at the 2018 “Freedom in the World” report published by Freedom House and came to a grave realization. There is only one country in the Arab world that has been classified as “free.” That nation is Tunisia. Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait come second, with a classification of “partly free.” The rest of the countries in the Arab world are classified as “not free.”
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