Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood
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Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood (Arabic: عبدالله محمد الداود) is a Saudi author, known for self-help books and conservative views.
In May 2013, his Twitter comment calling for the harassment of women working as cashiers in order to pressure them to stay as housewives generated negative international publicity.[1][2][3][4] al-Dawood argued that his comment was mistranslated and misquoted.[5][6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2013-06-09. Retrieved 2014-04-11.