” When you have a sister, you have someone who cares about you, thinks of you, and never forgets you” said Dhiya AlSuliman when we had a conversation about the advantage of having a sister “The movie contained pornography content, you were closing you eyes and you missed all enjoyment and the pleasure” two guys from [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 21, 2009
Saudi Women in US
Throughout my life here in Portland, I have met many Saudi girls who are incredibly genius, creative and talented. In every discussion I have with each one of them, I always feel sorry for my society for never recognizing this treasure, for never giving enough space for women to show their ideas and thoughts. Saudi [...]
July 18, 2009
Do Saudi Men Understand Saudi Women?
Studying in US has given me a great opportunity to observe and understand people from different backgrounds, cultures and religions but most importantly it has enabled me to observe and study people from my own country. I was curious to explore the level of understanding between Saudi men and Saudi women here in the open [...]
July 17, 2009
The Beauty of Pain
Pain, as so many of us call it, is in fact a source of power, a source of transformation and moving from one thing to another. It is the gate for our happiness. I don’t understand why people freak out whenever they have any feeling of sadness or frustration. Be sad, get frustrated, cry as [...]
July 12, 2009
A lesson that should be learned
I was watching CNN last night. It gained my attention a story about a church in Florida posting a sign of “Islam is of the devil” in front of the church building. What interesting is that people from different ages, races and religions protested against the church because of the discriminatory and racist sign. Those [...]
July 10, 2009
what size ,,please!!
One of my American friend has asked me whether or not male employees still work instead of women in Women shops and clothes’ stores in Saudi. I told him that it should be obvious that anyone in my conservative society wouldn’t allow his wife or his sister to go to the male cashier holding underwear [...]
