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| The Kingdom of Silence |
| 2004-01-15 |
| Tip oâ the hat to Steve Den Beste. Lawrence Wright has a great article in last weekâs New Yorker about going to Saudi-controlled Arabia. Long article so just the first paragraph here. But it corroborates what .com and others have been saying for a long time: SA is truly whacked in some serious ways. "This is a newspaper?â I asked the cabdriver in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as he pulled up in front of the lavish new headquarters of Okaz, the most popular paper in the kingdom. I had expected the usual dingy firetrap that characterizes newspaper offices all over the world, but this building loomed over the humble neighborhood like a royal palace. Workmen were still laying marble tiles on the steps as I entered a towering atrium. Envious reporters for other newspapers call Okazâs new headquarters the Taj Mahal. Saudi men whom I took to be reporters solemnly passed by, wearing crisp white robes and red checked head scarves. I felt out of place and underdressed. Much, much more at the link. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 I got about a third of the way through Lawrence's article, then saved the link for later. Gawd, what a horrible place... the world's largest maximum-security prison. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-1-15 5:38:24 AM |
| #5 vry vry long, worth reading tho, nice post |
| Posted by: dcreeper 2004-1-15 4:42:06 AM |
| #4 I should have added that Den Beste has a commentary about Wright's piece at the link above. He makes some excellent points on top of Wright's work. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-1-15 12:13:23 AM |
| #3 I got about a third of the way through Lawrence's article, then saved the link for later. Gawd, what a horrible place... the world's largest maximum-security prison. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-1-15 5:38:24 AM |
| #2 vry vry long, worth reading tho, nice post |
| Posted by: dcreeper 2004-1-15 4:42:06 AM |
| #1 I should have added that Den Beste has a commentary about Wright's piece at the link above. He makes some excellent points on top of Wright's work. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-1-15 12:13:23 AM |