Democracy in the Arab World

Self-Censorship Worse Than Official Censorship

Published June 8, 2005

"Well, I think they are sticking their necks out. You cannot change the world without courage. For a very long time, we accepted our failures and we refused to look into them. Worse still, many of us practiced self-censorship, which is even worse than official censorship." Former Jordanian cabinet minister and UN Undersecretary-General, Dr. Rima Khalaf-Hunaidi, Director of the UNDP's Regional Bureau of Arab States,...

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