Comments on: My two days in Saudi Arabia

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By: Mike Doughney

Mike Doughney — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:14:46 +0000

I had dinner at that very same hotel buffet – about twenty years ago. In so many ways, very little there has changed.

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By: Evelyn Walsh

Evelyn Walsh — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:41:31 +0000

Here’s a quote from a Lorrie Moore story about another trip abroad:
“Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place. No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce – winds, seas – a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world – no flower or stone – as a single hello from a human being.
(‘Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People’)”

By: Evelyn Walsh

Evelyn Walsh — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:24:11 +0000

This is a brilliant and moving piece

By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:01:18 +0000

David, I’m so glad you went. Thank you for this extremely candid and thoughtful post.

By: Terry Heaton

Terry Heaton — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:58:05 +0000

This was a wonderful read, David. It reminded me of my visit two years ago to my daughter, son-in-law and four grandkids in Jordan. Waseem is Palestinian, and his view of the world is very different than ours. He often works in Saudi Arabia, and he and my daughter lived there for a period once. My daughter, while living in a house with several maids, dreaded the religious police with their whips. She was forbidden to drive a car. It is a culture within a culture, and so it goes.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:14:24 +0000

That’s funny. I thought it was celeriac!

By: davidw

davidw — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:14:33 +0000

I ate mainly in the hotel buffet, which had plenty of veggies, salads, hummus, etc. It also had western cheese, which was comforting. Delicious fruit and vegetables, at least in the hotel. On the other hand, on fish night in the hotel, the eggplant salad had tentacles.