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Published 29 January 2007

Observations on the Middle East

Those ministers in the Blair government who still see nothing wrong with this country's cosy relationship with the totalitarian Islamists who run Saudi Arabia should take a look at Where's My Dictator, by Sioux Bradshaw, a recent illustration graduate of the University of Westminster. Based loosely on the series of children's books That's Not My Dinosaur, That's Not My Truck and so on, by Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells, this picture book exposes hypocrisy in terms that any three-year-old could understand. A little girl in a Union Jack dress meets and rejects Ali Khamenei of Iran, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Kim Jong-il of North Korea before giving a cuddle to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Others in this series: Where Are My Weapons?, Where Are My Dissidents and Where Is My Moral Compass?.

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Ah_lex
30 January 2007 at 13:41

I cannot find these books anywhere- are they publicly available or have I missed something? If they are, does anyone know where I could purchase them from?

Thanks,

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About the writer

Martin Bright began his journalistic career writing in very simple English for a magazine aimed at French school children. This experience has informed his style ever since. He worked for the BBC World Service, and The Guardian before joining the Observer as Education Correspondent. He went on to become Home Affairs Editor before becoming the New Statesman's political editor in 2005.