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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

It wasn’t until the mid-1980’s that the party-pooping Ulema shut down Saudi Arabia’s cinemas. So there’s a good chance that Jamal Khashoggi, born in 1958, saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at his local flea-pit around the same time I did. And if his parents bought the soundtrack album, as mine did, young Jamal may even have sung along to it, as I still sometimes do.

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