Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood

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

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ Allam, Abeer (2013-05-28). "Twitter war over writer’s call to molest Saudi women cashiers". FT.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  4. ↑ Usher, Sebastian (2013-05-29). "BBC News - Saudi cleric faces backlash over harassment tweet". Bbc.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  5. ↑ "Saudi tweeter gets cyber-pummeling over sex harassment mistranslation". CNN.com. 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  6. ↑ "Molestation tweet ‘was misquoted’, Saudi writer says". GulfNews.com. 2013-05-31. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  7. ↑ Knibbs, Kate (2013-05-29). "Saudi writer calls for sexual harassment of working women". Dailydot.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  8. ↑ Saudi Gazette. "‘I did not ask men to harass women cashiers’ | Front Page". Saudi Gazette. Retrieved 2014-04-11.


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