Tuesday, March 04, 2008

A Night on the Town, Riyadh style

Blogger "Saudi Jeans" describes the difficulty of finding a jazz concert in Saudi Arabia.

I know intellectually that there are significant restraints on personal life in much of the Arabian Peninsula, and always sort of felt a sense that "Wahabiism is a rough way to live" (see here), but somehow the idea of having to go to the U.S. Embassy to hear any live music at all in the Kingdom puts a visceral realism to it for me. Or maybe I am just messed up enough that it takes something like this to get to me on a personal level.

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