Sunday, September 08, 2013

Headline of a Saudi newspaper

I will translate the main headline of this leading Saudi newspaper, Al-Riyadh: "The [Saudi] Kingdom insists on taking the world out of the depth* of darkness and repression toward the light of righteousness, equality, and justice".  Does that not read as a spoof of a Saudi newspaper?

*The word Ghayahib is hard to translate because it means intense blackness, and here it precedes the word darkness.