Brian Whitaker
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Brian Whitaker (sometimes credited as Brian Whittaker; born 13 June 1947)[1] is a British journalist and writer.
He studied Arabic studies at the
Whitaker worked for the British newspaper The Guardian from 1987 and was its Middle East editor from 2000 to 2007. He runs a personal, non-Guardian-related website, Al-Bab.com, about politics in the Arab world.
Works
- News Limited: Why You Can't Read All About it, 1981 (London: Minority Press Group) OCLC 8229010
- Notes and Queries, vol. 1-5, 1990 (London: OCLC 22182928, a collection of Q&A from the readers of The Guardian
- Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East, 2006 (London: Saqi Books) OCLC 238877880
- What's "Really" Wrong with the Middle East?, 2009 (London: Saqi Books) OCLC 416261943
- Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Arab World, 2014 (ISBN 9781501064838
References
- ^ "Whitaker, Brian 1947–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Bitter battle at Wapping: scenes at the frontline". Press Gazette. 19 January 2006. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ Greenslade, Roy. Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda. London: Pan Macmillan. pp. 494–495.
- ^ "Britain to Punish Paper in Spy Case". The New York Times. Reuters. 5 August 1987. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Government to Prosecute Newspaper for Printing Spy Book Exerpts". AP News. 5 August 1987. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Papers fined £150,000 for Spycatcher contempt". The Glasgow Herald. 9 May 1989. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
External links
- Column archive at The Guardian
- Brian Whitaker on Twitter
- Al-Bab.com Arab culture and politics website
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