Blogs in April 2020

Shumaisi 9th April 2020

The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he’s enrolled at university to study politics and economics. But this city has more than...

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The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca 9th April 2020

Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary’s early...

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The Sand Café 9th April 2020

Dhahran Palace Hotel, Saudi Arabia, 1991. The US forces are massing on the border with Iraq, preparing to throw Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Men and material are arriving daily, helicopters and armor are training in the desert sand....

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Princess Sultana’s Circle 9th April 2020

With Princess Sultana’s Circle, the extraordinary story of Princess Sultana continues. The forced marriage of Sultana’s niece to a cruel and depraved older man, and Sultana’s discovery of the harem of sex slaves kept by a royal cousin, makes...

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The Others 9th April 2020

A nameless young university student in Saudi Arabia has no contact with men outside her family, so when the charming Dai seduces her, her feelings of guilt are overwhelmed by the need for intimacy. Dai introduces her to a...

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