The Washington Post received the last column of Jamal
Khashoggi and at first moment decided to delay its publication with the hope he
would reappear and that they could edit it together. Finally, they arrived to
the sad conclusion that this would not happen, and published it. Here below
some extracts, to which we think, no comments are needed.
“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”.
As a result, Arabs living in these countries are either
uninformed or misinformed. They are unable to adequately address, much less
publicly discuss, matters that affect the region and their day-to-day lives. A
state-run narrative dominates the public psyche, and while many do not believe
it, a large majority of the population falls victim to this false narrative.
Sadly, this situation is unlikely to change.”
“The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron
Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for
power.”
“We suffer from poverty, mismanagement and poor education.”
