No Place for Journalists
Hilary Mantel
- The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom by Sandra Mackey
Harrap, 433 pp, £12.95, August 1987, ISBN 0 245 54592 1 - Behind the Wall: A Journey through China by Colin Thubron
Heinemann, 308 pp, £10.95, September 1987, ISBN 0 434 77988 1
Foreign news organisations are not invited to operate in Saudi Arabia. The journalists who are permitted into the Kingdom by the Ministry of Information operate under severe constraints. It’s not that the Saudis mind you saying bad things about them: it’s that they mind you saying anything at all.
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