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Girls of Riyadh
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Girls of Riyadh is a sweet and charming peek into the world that most people outside of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will never know. Back in the 1980s I spent 11 months in Riyadh and although the women were not free to have conversations with me often each time I rode the public busses they quickly began questioning me in broken English about my life in a world so different from their own. Those busses with the separate door and wall separating us from the men were such an offense to me at the t ...more
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