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January 26, 2006
Saudi Arabia: "The Girls of Riyadh" Scandalizes the Country
If it is raising this much trouble, I look forward to reading the novel when it becomes available in English: Woman shocks Saudi world with 'The Girls of Riyadh'
RIYADH - Gay teen-agers, predatory lesbians, women drinking alcohol at weddings, husbands with unsavory sexual demands.With characters like that, "The Girls of Riyadh" is not your run-of-the-mill depiction of life in Muslim Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most restricted and conservative societies.
Though technically banned here, Rajaa al-Sanie's frank and sometimes shocking insight into the closed world of Saudi women is making waves four months after its publication in Beirut.
Local press commentators have asked the young Saudi to disown the book for besmirching women in the conservative kingdom and interviewers on Saudi-owned satellite channels have accused her of portraying its men as boorish bores.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at January 26, 2006 8:08 PM
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