Getting fitted for a Saudi outfit

It occured to me that everyone wheres the same thing here. But apparently everyone gets tailored for their thobe. The head dress is called a ghuetra. (I bought a ghuetra today for about $7.oo US)

Scenes from Life in Khafji

April 1st 2010
April 1, 2010 Today is the weekend, here in Saudi. It’s a warm, beautiful day so I decided to walk into Khafji. It wound up to be a four-hour walk (round trip) to get from where I’m staying into the middle of town. To get there, you have to walk through the industrial section, which is stall after stall of car repair places. One would think there must be one repair shop per driver here ... read more

Middle East » Saudi Arabia » Khafji

In 1902, ABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman Al Saud captured Riyadh and set out on a 30-year campaign to unify the Arabian Peninsula. A son of ABD AL-AZIZ rules the country today, and the country's Basic Law stipulates that the throne shall remain in the ... ... read more

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