That was years ago. I returned from Baghdad and published an interview with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Iraq was mired in a difficult battle, and the man’s name was a provocation to his opponents. The phone rang, and the caller asked me: “How can Ghassan Charbel have the right to tour Baghdad, but I have no right to visit my country?”
Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities
Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities