Censorship and Subversion in the State Saudi Media
This article deals with censorship in a country about which Translation Studies scholars have written little: Saudi Arabia. It proposes first to introduce briefly the sociopolitical situation of the country and then to give a synthetic overview of the media landscape (radio and television). In order to better understand the state of censorship in the Saudi media, the author presents a case study based on his work some ten years ago at the French radio section of the Saudi Ministry of Information, and gives a first-hand account of his experience in the foreign languages television channel of the same Ministry. Finally, the author concludes with a postcolonial reflection on the relation between ethics, censorship and translation.