Three Observations from Saudi Arabia

Reflections after One Week in the Kingdom

A.J. Bryant

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Photo of a coffee shop name in Riyadh called ‘The Coffeeholics’
Whimsical Coffee Shop Name — Photo by Author

It’s harder to enter Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Museums than to get into Saudi Arabia.

I’ve read about surveillance and security in Saudi Arabia for years and expected a severe grilling from the Customs and Border agents at the Jeddah airport. I could not have been more wrong.

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A.J. Bryant

Adopted from Kerala. I write about adoption, my intercultural marriage, contemporary India and more. Prawns are my love language.