To show you the standards and criteria of Western media. I have written below on the new PBS series. In the series, at least based on the first part which I saw yesterday, they have an in-house expert on Arabic language. He is Malise Ruthven (author of Islam in the World--a really good book). His task is to explain the key Arabic words that appear in the series. So what is the problem? Well, I know Malise, and I recommend his writings but...he does not know any Arabic. Come to think of it: I may write a Russian dictionary (do I need to know Russian for that? I am sure US publishers would not notice).