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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 fourteen-year-old son, and a few books by and about Leo Tolstoy, Chris found a sense of connection where she least expected it. The fast-moving, slightly comic, always fascinating adventure pulls us directly into the journey. We come to respect and love the mother-son duo for their unprejudiced outlook and their cool-headed 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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Chris Cryer is a English professor in Ventura, California. She has developed Montessori programs in the deep South written for a Los Angeles Arab newsmagazine, and done freelance reviews for the Los Angeles times.
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- PublisherDaniel & Daniel Publishers
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1564745171
- ISBN 13 9781564745170
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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