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Tale of a Princess

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  Sawsan Badr In 1980 a British television station produced (I can't remember it's name in fact) a shocking deco-drama movie about the Saudi princess Mishaal Bint Fahd , who was killed by the royal family in age 19 because she loved someone who wasn not approved by her family.. ! This movie made alot of circles in the lake, nobody has talked about it in the inside of Saudi Arabia before, an American television bought the film and re-showed it to the American public..  Saudi's authoritys made alot of pressure on the USA administration and the saudi embassy was closed in London and Washington DC, Saudi Arabia used the Saudi investments as a pressing card,  So the movie has been banned and didn't see the light for about 25 years until the late couple of years, it was released again.. because of the situation in the bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States under Obama adminstraition. USA and Britain preferr...

Kingdom of Blood

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" Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it." Noam Chomsky. After one month there ,i was living in a small apartment in Mecca, just next to Kaaba (the most holy place in Islam),  There were alot of rife news and rumors about a group of opponents of the system was arrested by the saudi authoritys ..  I was scared, as I was still writing in my arabic blog against alot of middle eastern dictatorships including (of course) the Saudi's regime, with Raif Badawi's story in the back scene, it was a nightmare..  So I was scared and interested to know more about the subject, i was asking carefully without raises doubts because it is a taboo to discuss this matters with Saudi people.  actually, people there don't talk about anything, just food, cars, and women, you will be so shocked with the cultural level of the public..  Okay.. Here is the story.. Fifty-nine persons were...