I’m happy to report that you have nothing to worry about when it comes to medical exams for an iqama in Saudi Arabia. No crazy ladies herding you from room to room like cattle, no one shrieking “Yallah yallah” in your ear, no hurried nurses savagely stabbing at your arm for blood. I was the...

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Some observations after two weeks in Saudi: - It’s true, there are no fitting rooms in clothes shops! We were at Dharan Mall and I just had to see if this is an urban legend or not. Apparently, it isn’t. There are fitting rooms, however, in the toilets. But for someone like me who has...

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A 6-hour plane ride is all it takes to change your life radically. We took this plane ride from Paris to Bahrain. I won’t go into details, but even though we flew business class, it was working class for me all the way as Lila hurtled up and down the aisles, pulling blankets off sleeping...

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