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er reem alkanhal says she respects freedom of speech but this crossed the line i think we have deeper problems than traveling driving and covering our faces they only focus on the aspects of our lives that make them laugh and we hate to be the butt of jokes on live television she said if we don t want to be the butt of jokes then we should fix our deeper problem complaining about others laughing at us will not solve these problems especially when we are not allowed to discuss and tackle them because of the red lines that you say hanlder has crossed one of them a female saudi blogger who chose to remain anonymous said that chelsea s clip was offensive not only to saudi women but to islam as well we learned that muslim women should not leave the house without the approval of their husbands and i think it s the right thing to do she said her words were very aggressive and we do not accept such attacks especially using bad words knowing that this is not how we were raised and this is not normal to us in arab local tv shows and talk shows she added you would think that bloggers are opinionated people who want to express their ideas and stand behind them but this is not the case here here you have a blogger who wants to be anonymous she is like the anti blogger she complains that handler a comedienne who was talking on a late night show used bad words what are you five she adds that this is not normal to us in arab local tv shows and talk shows first this was not an arab or local show second you almost certainly watched this on youtube i e you chose to click and watch this nobody forced you to do this oh and by the way since you seem easily offended you should probably stop using the internet sarah essam a 32 year old mother of two wonders how chelsea thought she was defending saudi women in making these statements i know that using shocking language and discussing controversial topics are surefire ways to attract a larger audience but this is beyond disrespectful and she crossed the line she said thanks to her words she actually made us defend our husbands and stand behind this service even if we don t approve of it she added again with the damn line but wait handler s comments made you stand behind this service even if we don t approve of it wow talk about stockholm syndrome mariam hejazi a 28 year old banker demanded an apology from chelsea we have been tolerating the international media for a really long time how can they judge a whole nation when funnily enough it is their motto to never judge a book by its cover she said poor hejazi is upset very upset how dare this handler comedienne make fun of her plight how insensitive of her okay khalas international media will no longer talk about saudi women issues because someone s feelings are hurt promise pinky promise in the end the newspaper has managed to find at least one woman who was not offended by the clip yasmine abdulrazak an english teacher at a college in jeddah thinks the clip was actually funny and did not feel offended by it i don t know why we are always offended when people talk about us yes the media highlights the negative things about saudi arabia and they always make women feel like we need a hero to save us she said chelsea is a comedian and her job is to mock people and attack others to make her audience laugh we see her make fun of celebrities politicians and nations but they do not express offense in the same way we did today she added i found a few more on twitter here s one of them https twitter com almizyenalaa status 286404594387533824 wednesday january 2 2013 by ahmed 16 comments on riyadh s diplomatic quarter when i used to live in riyadh the diplomatic quarter was one of my favorite areas in the city clean organized and quiet it felt like a secret oasis within the city in a way it was since the early 2000 s access to the neighborhood has been highly restricted due to fear of terrorist attacks targeting the diplomatic missions located there i have previously complained about how hard it is to enter the diplomatic quarter or dq for short for regular people i have not been to riyadh in a few years but i guess the problems in getting to the dq remain the same despite the fact that the security situation in the country has improved a lot now in addition to being the semi official newspaper for the country and the capital s city namesake al riyadh daily also serves as a newsletter for the saudi royal family when a prince gets married al riyadh would typically run pages upon pages full of pictures from the all male wedding such weddings usually take place in a banquet hall called palace of culture in the diplomatic quarter the newspaper recently ran photos from yet another prince s wedding at the palace of culture that made wonder if there are ever any cultural events held at this place the answer is yes but very rarely most of the time it is simply used as a wedding hall for the elites as i was doing my research on that location i came across this interesting piece about the planning and building of the diplomatic quarter published in saudi aramco world in their september october 1988 issue the magazine published by the national oil company is one of the oldest publications in the country unlike the current the situation where the dq feels blocked from the rest of the city by multiple security checkpoints guarded by squads of heavily armed and grumpy security forces the original vision for the area was that it would be a normal neighborhood mohamed alshaikh president of arriyadh development authority ada who has spearheaded the project when in the late 1970 s told the magazine physically functionally and socially the quarter is by no means separate from the rest of riyadh he says in fact diplomatic mission personnel will number less than 10 000 of the dq s projected 22 000 inhabitants and the quarter will be a normal neighborhood of riyadh with priority to the diplomats for current residents of riyadh the dq is anything but a normal neighborhood alshaikh went on to say that they did not want a ghetto feeling develop in the quarter planners wanted it to serve as a model for future urban development in riyadh that obviously did not happen more than twenty years later some would say that the rest of the city feels like a ghetto compared to the much nicer diplomatic quarter what went wrong nothing in the diplomatic quarter itself but almost everything around it monday december 3 2012 by ahmed 3 comments rooster s egg the book girls of riyadh is one of the few true saudi bestsellers the controversial novel by raja al sanea first came out in 2005 and became a sensation right away the instant popularity and the controversy surrounding it prompted the saudi government to ban the novel at first but soon the ban was lifted and the book was available for purchase almost everywhere including gas stations on the road between riyadh and dammam the novel was translated to english and published in the summer of 2007 i was not impressed by the book when i read it but i thought that accompanying controversy was interesting nevertheless considering that al sanea was trained as a dentist and this was her first book some people raised questions over if she really wrote it the fact that the well known saudi writer and minister ghazi al gosaibi a figure hated by religious conservatives wrote a blurb for the book did not help but i did not have a reason to doubt that al sanea had indeed written the novel al gosaibi who passed away in 2010 would not have written something like that to avoid the controversy and her new fame al sanea left the country and headed to chicago to pursue higher education in dentistry but before departing to the us she told those who questioned her talent that girls of riyadh was not a rooster s egg which means that her novel was not a one off accidental success she said she was going to write a novel as powerful and influential as her first one seven years later al sanea is yet to publish her second book she told the beirut based al akhbar last year that she is working on a new novel to come out in 2012 reflecting the changes surrounding her life the year is almost coming to an end and i have not heard or read anything about her upcoming novel however the most interesting part in her interview with al akhbar for me was her take on the arab spring i was surprised to read that she thinks that we in saudi have nothing to revolt against like neighboring countries moreover she believes that saudi arabia is on the reform track obviously raja al sanea is not beyond her rooster s egg yet monday november 19 2012 by ahmed 3 comments when foreign officials visit saudi private girls colleges during his visit to saudi arabia last week british pm david cameron made a stop at dar al hekma college dah in jeddah the private girls college held a roundtable with students and alumnae to welcome the visitor from england private higher education institutions in jeddah have become a usual stop on the schedules of foreign dignitaries who come to saudi arabia in recent years us secretary of state hillary clinton had a large town hall meeting with students at dah when she visited the country in february 2010 in both occasions the western visitors praised the intelligence and determination of the female students and in both cases religious conservatives attacked well everyone the visitors the colleges and the students as soon as photos from cameron s roundtable at dah surfaced online religious conservatives started spewing venom elderly cleric abdulrahman al barrak described the scene of dah students shaking hands with the british pm as disgrace scandalous and shame he said dah is only interested in westernizing muslim women كلية دار_الحكمة بجدة وما هي بدارحكمة للشيخ عبدالرحمن بن ناصر البراك احذروا_دار_الحكمة الشيخ_البراك السعودية فتوى pic twitter com pmp7ay7w الشيخ عبدالرحمن البراك sh_barrak november 11 2012 nasser al omar another cleric asked how is it possible for those who organized permitted or participated at the meeting of our girls with a christian official to be loyal to our religion country or people more people on twitter made similar remarks using even coarser language this prompted a number of dah students to say that they will file a complaint with the court against what they described as defamation on the social network according to saudi gazette when cameron visit s to dah was first announced hanan al shargi asked why did the private girls colleges in jeddah become a regular stop for foreign dignitaries why don t they visit the public king abdulaziz university kau for example are we embarrassed by kau students or is their english not good enough she added those questions should probably be directed at those foreign officials but let me take a shot at guessing some answers first there is the political gain that western politicians can easily achieve by such visits when cameron visits jeddah and meets with the students he can come back to tell his parliament that he did not just go to saudi arabia to sell arms and ignore their dismal record on human rights he can go back to london and say that he didn t just discuss human rights with the saudi government he has actually met non government actors and visited a girls college known for empowering women second logistics and bureaucracy most of these visits are usually proposed by the embassies of those foreign countries and for them it is far more easier to deal with a small private college than a big public university where they have to go through a lot of red tape speaking to foreign diplomats over the years many of them told me that public universities remain off limits to them the education office at the us embassy in riyadh has been for years seeking permission to organize activities at local universities to help saudi students prepare before they fly to the us to study on government scholarships no permission was granted despite the fact that more than 70 000 saudi students are currently seeking degrees in america then there is the general perception that those small private girls colleges in jeddah are more liberal and progressives than public higher education institutions in the country a perception that many people would agree with even though these private colleges are women only they don t have a problem welcoming male speakers every once in a while now compare this with the crisis in dammam university two months ago when a german female professor entered the engineering building of the male students and gave her first lecture in the semester to the students who were apparently freaking out some of them reported the incident to the dean who asked the professor to leave the classroom immediately it turned out that the professor was confused about her schedule and that she is only supposed to teach female students this is one of these these issues that is a non issue really but then again it is the kind of thing that conservatives enjoy the most an issue that involves women especially one where they don t have to worry about a direct confrontation with the government in the end it is the control of the social arena that they seek the most as long as they don t choose to challenge the government the government would gladly let them have it tuesday november 13 2012 by ahmed 4 comments riyadh bureau i know it s been very quiet around here apologies for the hiatus but i ve been working on something you might like riyadh bureau a new independent news website on saudi arabia saudi jeans will always be my home online and i will try to write in the blog every once in a while but for daily updates on the latest in saudi arabia please head over there tuesday october 16 2012 by ahmed photo essay first saudi female athletes at the olympics after long negotiations with the international olympic committee and pressure from human rights groups saudi arabia announced in the eleventh hour that they will be sending female athletes to the olympic games in london for the first time in the country s history this was seen as a victory for the equality and the women s rights movement in saudi arabia but before that it was a victory for the ioc who declared that by london 2012 every national olympic committee will have sent women to the olympic games the two athletes chosen to saudi arabia were wojdan shaherkhani a 16 year old judoka from makkah and sarah attar a 19 year old runner who holds dual citizenship for the united states and saudi arabia in the opening ceremony the two teenagers walked at the back of the delegation dressed in traditional clothes as they made their strides to follow their male counterparts the girls waved saudi flags and flashed victory signs with big smiles on their young faces on august 3 2012 history was made in white the announcer declared the first woman ever from saudi arabia wojdan shaherkani accompanied by her father an international judo judge himself she stepped onto the red and yellow ma...