Exiles

This is a world where there is no theatre, where there is no cinema, no bars, where you join a hotel social club so that you can wear shorts on the beach without being sexually harassed.  This is a world where a worker from Bangladesh queues for half an hour to spend $10 to send $10 home.  This is a world where it's better for a girl to burn to death than be seen uncovered.  This is a  world where it's ok to rape the maid.

This is a comedy about this world.

 

In 1998 I was a teacher in Saudi Arabia, culture shock is not the half of it.

 

 

John Rackham - confused about Saudi Arabia? I am.