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Saudi Arabia: Criticism for the sake of it

Written byAyesha Saldanha
Posted 27 August 2008 16:46 GMT

At a social gathering, Saudi blogger Broken Wing meets an annoying woman who is full of criticism of Saudi Arabia: ‘I am not a fan of what Saudi offers to its citizens, but I don’t find sitting around in a place full of people from other countries and start criticizing in a very arbitrary fashion OK.’

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