Abdel Bari Atwan was forced out of al-Quds al-Arabi after 25 years, but is bouncing back with a new online media project which launched in September. Read more about Gulf states and Israel won't silence me: journalist Abdel Bari Atwan 

The veteran Palestinian journalist opens up to The Electronic Intifada about the arm-twisting that led to his departure as editor of the London pan-Arab paper he founded. Read more about Abdel Bari Atwan: I was forced out by funders