#374 | The Rise And Fall of “The Fake Sheikh”
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The Importance of Disguise in Journalism
Mahmoud al-Husain started his journalism career as a freelancer in 1980. He went undercover to expose the son of a close family friend who was involved in an illegal video trade, which he wrote about. His Pakistani heritage would go on to help him slip into his trademark Middle Eastern shaped disguise without arousing too much suspicion. In 1991 he joined The News of the World full time and focused exclusively on investigative journalism. This is the same disgraced newspaper that was revealed to have hacked people's voicemails and was forced to shut down in 2011.
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