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Blogs in October 2025

Cities of Salt 3rd October 2025

When oil is discovered in a poor 1930s Arab village, the religious, historical, and cultural confrontations that occur between the natives and the American colonizers threaten to destroy a way of life

My Past is a Foreign Country 29th September 2025

‘Touching on often taboo subjects . . . Talkhani’s story of grit is a portrait of a young woman who refused to let others define her.’ ELLE 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid...

Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom 29th September 2025

A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world. In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped...

Travels with Maridadi – Harley-Davidson Adventures in Saudi Arabia 10th July 2024

After a botched spinal operation left her partially paralysed aged forty-five, Bizzie Frost found herself unable to enjoy the active lifestyle she loved in Saudi Arabia. That was remedied six years later when her airline captain husband, Frosty, proposed...

Drifts 14th February 2023

Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family lived for more than half a century. Through various departures and returns – a year at boarding school in New England, university in London, a small...