Blogs in January 1970

City of Veils 1st January 1970

The crime: one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach: soon afterwards a Western woman’s husband vanishes without trace. The place: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the City...

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Reunited in the Desert 1st January 1970

As I approached the house, I was gripped with terror. Call it a mother’s instinct, call it what you will. I knew that something terrible had happened. When I saw that my husband’s car had gone, I feared the...

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