BIOGRAPHY
Who was Jamal Khashoggi?
As a noticeable Saudi columnist, he covered significant stories, including the Soviet intrusion of Afghanistan and the ascent of the late al-Qaeda pioneer Osama Receptacle Loaded, for different Saudi news associations.
For quite a long time, the 59-year-old was near the Saudi illustrious family and furthermore filled in as a guide to the public authority.
Be that as it may, he become undesirable and went into deliberate outcast in the US in 2017. From that point, he composed a month to month section in the Washington Post in which he scrutinized the strategies of Crown prince Mohammed canister Salman, the child of Lord Salman and Saudi Arabia's true ruler.
In his first segment for the Post in September 2017, Khashoggi said he had dreaded being captured in a clear crackdown on dispute managed by the sovereign.
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (born 1958) is a Saudi journalist, columnist, author and the general manager and editor-in-chief of Al Arab News Channel.
He was globally respected for his influences to Al Watan for its becoming a stage for Saudi reformists.
Khashoggi was born in Madinah in 1958. He received fundamental and secondary education in Saudi Arabia. He acquired a bachelor's degree in business administration from Indiana State University in 1982.
Jamal Khashoggi began his career as a regional manager for Tihama Bookstores from 1983 to 1984. Later, Khashoggi worked as a correspondent for the Saudi Gazette and an assistant manager for Okaz from 1985 to 1987. He continued his career as a reporter for numerous daily and weekly Arab newspapers from 1987 to 1990, including Al Sharq Al Awsat, Al Majalla and Al Muslimoon. He became managing editor and acting editor-in-chief of Al Madina in 1991 and his term continued until 1999.
From 1991 to 1999, he was a foreign correspondent countries as Afghanistan, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the Middle East. It is also alleged that he served with both Saudi Intelligence Agency and the United States in Afghanistan during this period. He then was appointed a deputy editor-in-chief of Arab News, the leading English newspaper of Saudi Arabia and aided in the post from 1999 to 2003.
Khashoggi became the editor-in-chief of Al Watan for a short period, less than two months, in 2003. Precisely, his term as editor-in-chief lasted for 52 days only. He was fired in May 2003 by the Saudi ministry of information after several commentaries published in the paper about the authoritative power of the religious establishment in Saudi Arabia.
After this incident, he went to London in voluntary exile. There he merged with the Al Faisal's team as an adviser. Then, he assisted as a media aide to Prince Turki Al Faisal, while the latter was Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.
In April 2007, Khashoggi began to work as editor-in-chief in Al Watan for a second time. A column by poet Ibrahim al-Almaee stimulating the elementary Salafi premises was published in Al Watan in May 2010. Then, Khashoggi had to resign again on 17 May 2010. Al Watan broadcast that Khashoggi resigned as editor-in-chief "to focus on his personal projects". However, it is thought that he was forced to resign due to official discontentment with articles published in the paper that were precarious of the Kingdom's harsh Islamic rules.
After his second resignation from Al Watan in 2010, Khashoggi appointed by Al-Waleed bin Talal as director of the Al Arab News Channel in Bahrain. He was also political commentator for Saudi and international channels, including MBC, BBC, Al Jazeera and Dubai TV.
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