The Kingdom in the Closet
Girls of Riyadh
Careers
Those Saudi nights / 'Girls of Riyadh,' banned in its home country, is chick lit for veiled women, or anyone who wants to know them
Those Saudi nights / 'Girls of Riyadh,' banned in its home country, is chick lit for veiled women, or anyone who wants to know them
Leaving the barbershop, we drove onto Tahlia Street, a broad avenue framed by palm trees, then went past a succession of sleek malls and slowed in front of a glass-and-steel shopping center.
They make sure that single men steer clear of the malls, which are family-only zones for the most part, unless they are with a female relative.
But as the Western conception of sexual identity has filtered into the kingdom via television and the Internet, it has begun to blur the Saudi view of sexual behavior as distinct from sexual identity.
JED-TO-HEART: yes jedbut: are you married? In the reader's guider to novel, Alsanea notes that she wants to enable her Western readers to connect with Saudi culture, seeing that the girls in the novel had the 'same dreams, emotions, and goals' as them.