I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while now, and what better time to actually write it and publish it than during the Israeli Apartheid Week.
Let me be clear, I do not hate Jews. I’ve had Jewish friends, we talked, we ate , we celebrated, we got into heated debates about [...]
I would’ve loved to be a musician, but having that as a career in Saudi is not appealing, when I was in my last year of high school, I researched career opportunities in music and music schools in Saudi. The only place I could’ve learned was in the military music academy, which meant I had [...]
I learned how to read and write in English before I knew how to read and write in Arabic, and due to that, I do not remember having any major problems either understanding or being misunderstood when communicating in English.
American slang was not much of a problem since American media with the music
A couple of months ago I came across a video on YouTube called “the real reason for Jeddah’s crisis” a very funny and well made animation made by a young man called “Malik Nejer”
Last week I finaly got to see Malik and his friends hanging out in a ten minute video they made, basically it was about them [...]
I enjoy the posts and pictures Abdullah (NidalM) had on his blog so much, especially his escapades in the Saudi desert like this and this, and even though I have traveled extensively in Saudi, but I was always going somewhere, so stopping and exploring were never on the list.
Yesterday a nice commenter was kind enough (thank you:) ) to share a link with me to a site Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 30% [?]
I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while now, and what better time to actually write it and publish it than during the Israeli Apartheid Week.
Let me be clear, I do not hate Jews. I’ve had Jewish friends, we talked, we ate , we celebrated, we got into heated debates about this and that, we helped each other on homework and projects and I have some good memories of some of them, and bad memories of others. I have never subscribed to the idea of grouping people into one category, and I was never comfortable with generalizing a whole community and demonizing or exemplifying them.
Now that I have that out of the way, Israel is an apartheid, just like South Africa was, and worse in my opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 29% [?]
I’ve been following Qusai’s songs/career since I heard his first song “Jeddah” in 2002/2003, and I wrote my take on his Experimental Edutainmet album on my Arabic blog (I think it was rushed and a little disappointing and his earlier works were better), but this song about fathers, brings tears to my eyes.
Popularity: 26% [?]
I would’ve loved to be a musician, but having that as a career in Saudi is not appealing, when I was in my last year of high school, I researched career opportunities in music and music schools in Saudi. The only place I could’ve learned was in the military music academy, which meant I had to apply to the military, and that was something I could never do, due to me being a peace loving free spirit 
and not wanting to only play the national anthems of most countries in the world for the rest of my life. Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 31% [?]
I learned how to read and write in English before I knew how to read and write in Arabic, and due to that, I do not remember having any major problems either understanding or being misunderstood when communicating in English.
American slang was not much of a problem since American media with the music Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 50% [?]
Since p0rn seems to be the post with the most clicks… hmm I wonder why??
Well here is a clip from yesterday’s Australian news in which an employee is looking at pictures of Miranda Kerr the Australian Victoria’s Secret model and Orlando Bloom’s girl friend… I love the part where he looks at the camera and realizes he’s been busted. Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 38% [?]
I got to see this video because some of my friends were sharing it on twitter, and I was moved by it, enough to do a post about it.
Discrimination needs to end.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmund Burke 1770
I think the quote should read Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 47% [?]
A couple of months ago I came across a video on YouTube called “the real reason for Jeddah’s crisis” a very funny and well made animation made by a young man called “Malik Nejer”
Last week I finaly got to see Malik and his friends hanging out in a ten minute video they made, basically it was about them having nothing to do and filming it, I liked the part where they were told at some location that they should not film anything with a soul (a belief practiced by ultra orthodox practitioners of many religions, ex 1 and 2) Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: 39% [?]
In what I would call a series of fortunate events, I stumbled upon this blog which has some amazing photographs of events in Jeddah and around it, and some amazing shots of places around the world.
The blog is owned by Michael Bou-Nacklie, currently the Editorial Director of Destination Jeddah / Fainak. However, he is leaving Saudi very soon. According to his words, his blog is ”geared toward showing Saudi Arabia as it is, free of politics and biases. Whether this has succeeded is up to you, the viewer.” I think it does 
I wish I knew about his blog before going to Jeddah, I would’ve loved to meet him, I left him a comment on his blog and sent him an email and he was kind enough to leave two (1,2) comments on mine and kindly responded to my email.
Thanks Michael, and best of luck.
Popularity: 26% [?]
Good Reads
The blog owner requires users to be logged in to be able to vote for this post.
Alternatively, if you do not have an account yet you can create one here.
Powered by Vote It Up
RSS Feed
Twitter