The killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have hoped his 2018 assassination would quickly fade from memory, but that hasn’t been the case.
In fact, his journalistic legacy gets renewed attention in the Showtime documentary Kingdom of Silence.“The scope of his life was just epic,” director Rick Rowley says during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “He was more than just a journalistic witness.
He lived his life at the center of a whirlwind and was a participant in events that shaped history.”Khashoggi cut his teeth reporting on Osama bin Laden.
Later, he became a quasi-government spokesman, defending Saudi Arabia abroad. But the kingdom’s role squashing the Arab Spring, and de facto ruler
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