I said I consider myself lucky because so many Egyptian journalists were assaulted by security forces last May.... I built a case for how the state constrains the press. |
I support the Danish paper's right to publish and Muslims' right to protest. This is a question of freedom of the press for the Muslim world as well. We have little freedom of expression, and much of the protest was manipulated. |
If these debates were shown on Arab TV it would make a difference. A lot of students said after the debate that the arguments helped them see beyond the issue of the Arab world versus the West. They saw that it is not a question of us versus them but us versus us. |