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NEW YORK | The Jamal Khashoggi I knew: mentor, bridge between cultures

NEW YORK  — Sitting in my suburban American kitchen, it is easy to feel that Saudi Arabia is a world away, that events at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul — as gruesome as they now seem to have been — have little to do with me. Except for one thing.

Almost 25 years ago, Jamal Khashoggiwas my friend and mentor when I was a young reporter in Yemen on a fellowship studying Islamic movements. I got to…