Comments Policy

All comments on this weblog are carefully read and taken into consideration especially when writing new posts. However I apologize if you happened to have asked a question that is yet to be answered. I am a mother of three, all under 8 and I am a full-time research student so it is a stretch just maintaining a blog. Comments are highly valued but the comment section is just that, and not a discussion board.

12 Comments

  • Mark Weston
    December 31, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    You are right that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is the root of all the tension in the Middle East.

    But Israel dismantled settlements and withdrew from Gaza, and how did Hamas respond? By firing rockets. If you fire rockets, you have to expect a massive retaliation.

    Do you think if Yemen fired several thousand rockets at Saudi Arabia that the Saudis would just launch a “tit for tat” strike or two in response?

    The Palestinians have a choice to make. They can have the reality of their own sovereign state — which even Israel wants them to have — or they can cling to their impossible dream of driving Israel into the sea. They cannot have both.

    Firing rockets is an act of war. The people of Gaza have reaped what they have sown.

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  • PragueRaider
    February 23, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    “You are right that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is the root of all the tension in the Middle East”

    dear Mark, you are wrong.

    My opinion is, that ME conflict has many roots — but one is prominent.

    It is not a discussion of few thousands sq kilometres, it is mix of religion and culture heritage of arab people.

    If one side is not able to make compromises, thinks that you’ve found and ideal and eternal receipt for everything (islam & sharia = absence of critical thinking) and that you’ve an order from god to spread your ideology abroad… there can be no Peace.

    The israel is not saint, but the glove is on your part of the ring.

    Try to imagine that whole europe attacks the new islam province Kosovo and try to expel all of it’s citizens to see? Hard to imagine? Yeah, of course…

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  • RedRat
    March 12, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Hi there. What a wonderful, readable, useful blog.
    I think I have read everything you wrote in like 2 days, stumbling upon it by chance. I will be joining my expat partner in Abu Dhabi starting later this year, and it would be my pleasure to invite you for a lunch should you be there. We (non-KSA, non-Muslims) know so little about what’s going on in KSA and why. Thanks for giving us your insights, in a very balanced way.

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  • Hesham
    March 21, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Kindly, dignify me with an answer. Why don’t you publish my comments? What did I do wrong?

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    • saudiwoman
      March 21, 2009 at 7:44 pm

      I never recieved them and you are the second person to ask why I haven’t published comments that I’ve never recieved. I publish everything unless it’s particularly offensive. Maybe it’s a wordpress bug?!

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  • Mira
    May 23, 2009 at 10:49 am

    Hello Eman,

    Any thoughts on the following issue?

    Hoping to hear from you.

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  • Mira
    May 23, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Hello Eman,
    Any thoughts on this?

    Hoping to hear from you.

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  • Emanuele
    June 25, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Hi Miss. Eman,

    I found really interesting your blog and I will appreciate if I can ask you something about a situation that concern KSA.

    Thank you :)

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  • please don't publish this
    July 27, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    Hi Eman. I was not too sure about writing to you and did it with 50/50% uncertainty about whether I should or not. Please forget my comments. And I am glad to know you exist. But I don’t think I should create such a stupid complication or put you in a difficult situation. Please write more on your blog when you can. But I have been reading things from other places where I can (including wikipedia or news as well, which some people do not like, but actually I think such information is better than to not know anything about it at all),

    Take care, (you don’t have to reply).

    good wishes.

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  • jveeds
    September 22, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Is there a way to subscribe to your blog?

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  • Hesham
    November 3, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    I admire the rising tide of women’s voice in Saudi, I found this site by accident and It’s a very interesting read. I had a conversation with a cab in jeddah who asked me what it’s like to live in Canada, and as I was I describing the concepts of human rights, tolerance and freedoms, he quickly turned the subject to how do you control your daughter when wants to have a boyfriend? As if religion is no longer a set of beliefs and values that you are taught and choose to live your life by, but it’s rather a set of rules that are forced upon you that you may or may not understand. I could only answer him with a question, should your daughter follow religion because she wants to, or because she has to?

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