Dear Diplomat, we are all equal مو هيش عيني؟

Jameel W. Karaki


It is not shocking to me but also unacceptable as a human and a reporter to accept humilation or insolence myself or against anyone of my collegues. On Sunday, March 6 at the building of the United Nations , I was covering a human trafficking session at IOM ( Internationl Organization for Migration) with my collegua Bochara Al Zain, one of the senior diplomatic reporters in Kuwait who works for Al Anbaa Newspaper. After we finished the event many ambassadors approcahced us and shaked our hands and had chatted for a couple of minutes.

After that, while we were moving out of the hall through the glassy corridor, Bochra saw a newly assigned ambassador of an Arabic nehgboring  Country ,he looked at her and greeted her where she followed him to ask a couple of questions related to a topic she is working on.

We all know that it’s the right of any person to state that he or she has no comment likewise ambassadors who supposed to know how to deal with the press but the story this time was different. He didn’t stop while Bochra was walking behind him, didn’t state anything, kept marching in the corridor and left her.



Accordingly, at that moment, Bochra was no longer intrested in the questions she wanted his excelleny to answer, but her wounded dignity as human and a proffessional journalist who is painstakingly striving to work with code of ethics and professionalism. As a result, she went and spoke with his assistant about that unnacceptable behavior aiming that he would deliver the message to his excelleny but it seems that the assistant



On the contrary, The ambassador of the country who is blamed for the whole desisiatrs around the world including instanlity at the country of his excelleny ,divisions among arabs, and global warming was extermely polite and professionl. Once I greeted her she stopped, both of me and Bochra asked her for her comment and she was generous enough to give a statement to the press.



First,I herby that I don’t have any animosity or any personal issue against his excellency but journalists are one heart embedded in one body. Second, diplomats are not plastic dolls who just attend events for the sake of at¬tending them but serve as major contributors in intercultural communications and in promot¬ing peace among the nations. Third, people have the right to know, journalists investigate ,report events, issues, and trends to a broad audience.



Moreover, there is a group of journalists in Kuwait who still work according to a code of ethics and it’s the right of people to know. Therefore, I am writing this piece to deliver the message to his excellency because it seems to me that his assistant forgat to do so.



In a word, Allah Almighty created all people equal in His eyes. All religions call for equality among men while diplomacy calls for patience in re­specting the situation of others. Religions never encourage men to show rudeness and offend others - especially when a journalist asks a question that is considered to be a global con­cern even for an innocent child studying in the kindergarten.