Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood
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Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood is a Saudi author, known for self-help books and conservative views. He has about 100,000 Twitter followers.[1]
In May 2013, his Twitter comment about the harassment of working women generated negative international publicity.[1][2][3][4] al-Dawood argued that his comment was misunderstood due to mistranslation and misquoting.[5][6][7][8]
References
- ^ a b 05/30/2013 4:54 pm EDT (2013-05-30). "Abdallah al-Dawood, Saudi Author, Backtracks 'Harass Working Women' Tweet Controversy". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Saudi Writer, Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood, in Hot Seat for Harassment Tweet Against Women, Nation Divided - International Business Times". Au.ibtimes.com. 2013-05-30. Archived from the original on 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Allam, Abeer (2013-05-28). "Twitter war over writer's call to molest Saudi women cashiers". FT.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ Usher, Sebastian (2013-05-29). "BBC News - Saudi cleric faces backlash over harassment tweet". Bbc.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Saudi tweeter gets cyber-pummeling over sex harassment mistranslation". CNN.com. 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ "Molestation tweet 'was misquoted', Saudi writer says". GulfNews.com. 2013-05-31. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ Knibbs, Kate (2013-05-29). "Saudi writer calls for sexual harassment of working women". Dailydot.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
- ^ Saudi Gazette. "'I did not ask men to harass women cashiers' | Front Page". Saudi Gazette. Retrieved 2014-04-11.[permanent dead link ]