It's modern art! Imagine, this is Saudi-Arabia 1983. Great!
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World Picture Service
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- Taken on June 3, 2006
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Ichthys101 56 months ago | reply
They said that Saudi Arabia wasn't such a strict place back then. Women were roaming in Jeddah without wearing the Abaya.
World Picture Service 56 months ago | reply
Jeddah has always been the "easiest" town in the Kingdom because of the Haj, which brings in people from all over the world.
Still .... I encountered some quite severe moments while taking pictures in 1982/83 in the country. I have been arrested many times but by using my complete innocency, most of the time they let me go. Many other expats were less lucky :-(
Ichthys101 56 months ago | reply
Yeah, I have a friend who had a Malaysian guest and the said visitor snapped a photo of the Kingdom Tower. In a snap, the police picked him up, interrogated him, and "detained" him for a day.
Talk about tourism.
World Picture Service 55 months ago | reply
Why should they actually open the Kingdom to tourism?
No Peeping Tom's wanted! They still have enough "black gold" to get the dollars in!