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 …