Tariq Al Homayed, editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, responds to Mona Eltahawy article in the IHT. It is a lenghy respnse by Al Homayed to defend his newspaper, where he accuses Eltahawy of lying. He also says Asharq Al-Awsat’s professionalism is more than IHT’s prfoessionalism, which, looking to the state of Arab media that the former is a part of, is hard to believe. However, despite the lengh of the response, Al Homayed failed to tell us why Eltahawy columns don’t appear anymore in the paper.