“Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.” MenMadeSelfMomentsYoungNightBeliefMen And WomenYoung ManSelf ControlDay And NightArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:James Buchan
“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.” StatesVirtueClaimsMonopolyArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:James Buchan
“Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.” YearsInspirationPastDifficultBornKnownNew YorkRevolutionaryIslamicObserversBin LadenSaudisIranianOsama Bin LadenFathom Author:James Buchan
“The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.” MenWorldCountryFormLiteratureHalfNovelGenerationsDogStyleFemalePressesPopulationGreat MenBitesArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisThis GenerationFree PressProminenceWorld Literature Author:James Buchan
