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$4.65The Story
In 1982, Chris Cryer spent a year in Saudi Arabia, teaching English to women at King Saud University. Accompanied by her fourteenyearold son, and a few books by and about Leo Tolstoy, Chris found a sense of connection where she least expected it. The fastmoving, slightly comic, always fascinating adventure pulls us directly into the journey. We come to respect and love the motherson duo for their unprejudiced outlook and their coolheaded survival of matawas (moral police), strict laws, and customs. This book is one of very few based on true events, written from the inside out, that show the Arab side in the Islamic world, a place long held in mystery under the dark images of Western media. The author presents the Saudi culture at that time with a sensitivity to their need to preserve values and traditions in the face of modernity.
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In 1982, Chris Cryer spent a year in Saudi Arabia, teaching English to women at King Saud University. Accompanied by her fourteenyearold son, and a few books by and about Leo Tolstoy, Chris found a sense of connection where she least expected it. The fastmoving, slightly comic, always fascinating adventure pulls us directly into the journey. We come to respect and love the motherson duo for their unprejudiced outlook and their coolheaded survival of matawas (moral police), strict laws, and customs. This book is one of very few based on true events, written from the inside out, that show the Arab side in the Islamic world, a place long held in mystery under the dark images of Western media. The author presents the Saudi culture at that time with a sensitivity to their need to preserve values and traditions in the face of modernity.
