This month the Education Ministry instructed all religion teachers to spend five minutes of every class they teach to lecture students on how to dress properly and avoid western clothes. These instructions are strange considering that all Saudi public schools have very strict dress codes that even govern hairstyles. Girls have to wear a uniform [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 15, 2008
The Unemployment Rate and Saudi Women
The fifth of November was the deadline for applying for administrative and technical jobs at the new Princess Nora University in Riyadh. There were 218 positions available and the number of applicants was 40000 women and according to the Alwatan news channel the number was closer to 46000. So that is an average of 211 [...]
November 7, 2008
Prominent Saudis: Princess Nora bint AbdulRahman Al Saud
Princess Nora is the founder of Saudi Arabia’s sister. She was a year older than him, born in 1875. The photo above is of King Abdulazziz on the right and Prince Saud Al Kabeer (P. Nora’s husband) on the left.
She had great influence on King AbdulAzziz and historians write that she really urged him to [...]
November 5, 2008
No Need for a Hunger Strike
From the first time I read about the hunger strike a group of Saudis were planning I thought who are they kidding they could starve themselves for a month without anyting happening except maybe having their first meal after the strike in prison.
I saw this video on Ahmed Al Omran’s Saudijeans [...]
November 5, 2008
It’s Too Good To Be True
Barack Obama will be the next president of the USA. I know most people around the world are tired of the American elections and there is a sense of weariness because we all thought that it would be like four years ago when the world set their hopes on John Kerry (anyone but Bush thing) and [...]
November 1, 2008
King Abdullah is My Hero
This photo rescued the day for me. This morning while waiting at a stop light in the back of my car, I happened to notice that the car in front of mine had a sticker on its bumper that was a ban sign going across a woman driving. It just got to me. Isn’t it [...]
