The Libel Tourist exposes how Saudi banking magnate Khalid bin Mahfouz has exploited Britain’s notoriously accommodating libel laws to challenge any book or article that associates him with financing terrorism—even when such articles or books are not published in Britain. Many American authors and researchers have found themselves silenced and harassed by the Saudi billionaire's transcontinental manipulation of libel laws. By detailing Mahfouz's legal machinations, The Libel Tourist shows how Saudi wealth has ominously joined forces with the British legal system to silence and control the world’s media. Directed by Jared Lapidus, the short film explains how Mahfouz filed a libel suit against New York criminologist Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of the 2003 book Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed—and How to Stop It. The suit was not filed in the United States, where Ehrenfeld’s book was published and sold, but instead in London, where twenty-three copies of the book had been imported from online booksellers. In 2005, an English judge ruled against Ehrenfeld, ordering her to pulp copies of her book and to pay legal fees and damages—despite the fact that nothing in her book about Saudi terror financing was ever disproved. Since 2002, drawing on his vast fortune, Mahfouz has brought so many lawsuits in Britain, where libel laws heavily favor the accuser, that his actions have earned the country a reputation as a global hub of libel tourism. Every media outlet or publisher Mahfouz has sued, or threatened to sue, has apologized, retracted its publication, and paid fines. Even Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publishing house, capitulated to Mafhouz’s legal aggression when it chose to pulp the 2006 book Alms for Jihad, apologize, and pay damages.