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“His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears – the wide sky, the hard surface of the roof, the date palms and the water wells.”

Sex Sky Kissing Roof Riyadh

Book:Secret of the Sands

Source: Secret of the Sands

“إذا إنزكمت القاهرة عطست بغداد و سعلت الدار البيضاء و دعت لنا بالشفاء الرياض”

Baghdad Cairo Casablanca Riyadh

Book:قل لي يا أستاذ

Source: قل لي يا أستاذ

“It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.”

“There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.”

Kind Long Able Differences Internet Walking Degrees Distance Phones Enormous Pockets Google Cheaper Phone Calls Long Distance Pda Riyadh

Author:Thomas Friedman

“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.”

Made Next Toys Shelves Next Day Baghdad Bombers World Is Flat Riyadh

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida, including precise operations based on good intelligence, changes in their corrections facilities, superb strategic communications programs and a host of other initiatives - all of which, together, have helped Saudi Arabia achieve impressive results in their fight against extremists.”

“In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.”

People House Cities Huge Projects Units Riyadh

Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.”

People Ifs Would Be Differences Race Groups Dog Circumstances Raised Fewer Toys Foxes Australian Ethnic Groups Terriers Riyadh

Author:P. J. O'Rourke