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PSA: Beware of women in Abayas

This is a public service announcement: If you are ever in Saudi, and you get invited by an abaya-wearing woman to a secluded place, or (even dumber) receive a phone from “an educated sounding” woman wanting to privately meet you, DON’T, else you deserve everything you get: In another incident, the victim fell prey to …

A Royal Balls-Up…

I can’t help but to describe the latest in the petition saga on both the government and the opposition as a stinky brain-fart. The opposition have backed down in the face of mounting government pressure and supposedly threats of persecution, the return to State Security Law, imprisonment and the like; while the government is having …

Who do the boycotters represent?

Just came across this explanation which seems to be correct in an article in ArabicNews.com: The four societies are: the Islamic national reconciliation which represents the main trend among the Shiite, the democratic national labor (a coalition of leftists, nationalists and independents), the Islamic work (Shiite representing the Sherazi trend) and the democratic national coalition …