Asharq Al-Awsat file photo. (James Hanna/Asharq Al-Awsat)
by Amir Taheri | Jul 4, 2013 | Opinion
It was hard to miss: a green newspaper in a crowded news stand. I knew of the pink paper, London’s Financial Times, but a green paper was unexpected. It was the autumn of 1978 and I was on my way back to Tehran from Paris. The green intruder was Asharq Al-Awsat, a...