Columnist Dropped After Provocative Prose
From Times Wire Reports
A Saudi columnist who has challenged his country’s conservative social and political traditions has been dropped by his two Saudi newspapers.
Editors for the Arab News and Okaz confirmed they would no longer run Hussein Shobokshi’s weekly column but refused to say why. Saudi papers are privately owned but closely monitored by the government.
In a July 1 column in Okaz, Shobokshi fantasized about a future in which his daughter could drive and he could vote.
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