Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: A Royal Feud: a Banished Prince, a Murdered King, the Bard in Arabia……….

Arabia Deserta

A Royal Feud: a Banished Prince, a Murdered King, the Bard in Arabia……….

“An appeals court in Dubai has sustained an Emirate ruling that Saudi-owned Alarabiya TV pay 100 thousand Dirham restitution to a Saudi prince for not airing an interview with him. The court said Alarabiya did not abide by professional media ethics and harmed the ‘social position’ of Prince Saif al-Islam Bin Saudi Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud when it announced it will air the interview then reneged…….Alarabiya later claimed the interview did not rise to its level of broadcasting……..”

He is the son of former King Saud, the first of the sons of King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud) to inherit the throne in the 1950s. King Saud was overthrown by his brother Faisal in 1964. King Faisal himself was assassinated by one of his nephews in 1975 (yep, Shakespeare did not make all that stuff up).

The deposed Saud moved to Nasser’s Cairo where he lived until his death. Something about former monarchs, they seem to feel the need to live in exile. The prince apparently has a literary bent, he has published several columns in newspapers in the past, but not recently, odd. He has also written a novel about his father’s reign: I don’t need to tell you that the novel is banned in Saudi Arabia and most "moderate New Middle East oligarchy" countries. That may explain why he is not being published in recent months.
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