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eve what do you know of what side. you're probably thinking and rich kids. and nightmare for women under the extreme interpretation of islam. things people in the west take for granted are not. mixing with opposite sex drinking or talking about politics. but you might also have heard that things have opened up recently under the new crown prince women are now allowed to drive. and for the 1st time men and women have been allowed to listen to music together in public. and i work as a fashion stylist among them. but i've never felt totally at home. i grew up in northern ireland but i was born in saudi arabia to sudanese parents this is so right yes you are street. begging me to come back to saudi arabia and hope i might

be convinced me that. i decided to live with them for 2 weeks to see what my life would be like what one does or think like. the time chokehold a star resisting attempts are trying to decide the saudis are not having a great time at least in western media yeah we don't want to talk about. would i be allowed to party that's the sound i would have. if i lived here or go on a date should hinder well it's their role to do. this journey is going to be pretty much more challenging than i am. on you uncomfortable or is it the rules are going to make you. happy i still am going to get in trouble i'll settle down this is crazy but i literally was just reading an article . ok if you think down bot.

i'm finally on my way to saudi arabia. which is relieving news breaks about a society journalist who walked into the saudi embassy in turkey and never came out . that's an interesting title change be allowed to go because they could have said no. i don't wear a headscarf back home but my aunt told me to put it on for me that. the greatest thing that can happen really you know. now i have to find out if i can move back to my birth country. and you know now. i'm entering saudi jess the director of the film. these 2 women we hope to see

things that a male crew might not be able to. not to mention inside of man's house. oh i'm coming from the city police. and. my cousin not just man meets us. and then with my last. comment because it's such a. blast we did it. and who despite having had the 5 hours i did. these in my book that one other fact that you get what you're hearing. that you. are not it's like everyone's talking about it in the same you know what i don't know not really i mean. i'm going to be living here within the last.

my mother to and that's back. so i refer to them all as i'm new to the arabic for. this is citrus moments the youngest of my and. former colleague. and this is not the middle sister he's visiting from sudan. i feel. so only man in the house is much better husband he doesn't want to be on camera. that he. has worked as a university professor here for 25 years. but you know there nobody. i forgot with these women they're all that my mother and i think i think it's fine

for the some of them to love me but it's something. i thought i would feel really unsafe being here is so far i feel nothing but sifting. through you're you. sure it. was like that. moulin rouge notion more than a little sad about i think it should be that of the president i believe by. and by. and it's not what i say i know that may sound i ducked. and just didn't you say that what has that will shatter the lot of

you love you. although the dress code seems to have listened and that mounts trust me the way they like. they were ok. that get it down could see if they think it is ok if you're. part of the deal for being allowed to film inside is our company by fixers and a government minder at all times. we need them downstairs. i'm. not one doesn't even make you buy something yeah but you. need.

to. come to the mall for a beer. which is a mix of the usual western brands but also special about shops. so block. sizes that. it's tried out. i don't know. so the prices prices are they. need to be $700.00 pounds. everywhere to. know next. month. as we're walking around and notice that most women are wearing film the cops like man said there are also lots of women wearing open abayas i know headscarf are

told. so i'm really just like that's ok. a left not a problem right. oh yeah ok. are you uncomfortable or is it the rules. if. she's not wearing even. before we get a chance to try anywhere else all the shops close for prayer. i just think you're right even say. i don't really stop to pray in my normal life but i go along with it for man. but when we come i fix her suddenly angry i ask my jess and i aren't wearing a bias in the food just things like going to sleep but. i mean just the film interactor are both dressed in dark loose clothing that my

aunts helped us choose but apparently it's not good enough. to fit in i. don't know yet i. was afraid you would think if i. didn't make it i also know that if. i managed to find a pink abayas for 50 pounds. she said i'm. happy. everyone wins. i'm a bit annoyed by the way the fixers handled the situation but i also get there with the khashoggi case they might be a bit more niche. do you realise all these women are turning around so you can get them just all of them i know that not everybody wants to be on t.v. but here i feel like there's more to it. i get talking to a girl to check out every single time we have

a congress all the women get really scared of the camera and i don't really understand what they're. about to put up because it anybody but we. don't a lot of you now have like south china instagram and facebook. that's on the world wide web. so is a lot of it to do with fathers and husbands now you use and i think john. i got to this is the moment do you agree with you know you don't use it because you don't mind my yes no i agree with you so if this camera you play with ok so you think you should run she should go and fight. this interest and she said there's not time and strums time being on t.v. is not. say that the internet is worse than a t.v. nowadays. social media seems to be the place to breakthroughs. but it can have consequences. a woman from saudi arabia was arrested after snapchat

video surfaced after walking around in a mini skirt and her hair exposed. and insanity you could be punished for even sitting next to a member of the opposite sex at work i mean gyptian a man has been arrested in saudi arabia after he posted a video of himself having breakfast with a coworker. social media isn't so relevant for mt. and so many women cover themselves up completely i wonder if she ever feels pressure to do so. that's number one you ever feel like just here for not wearing in the car. there are many nationalities for me i find that. is important for me i don't wish to move on i think it's

a choice. well i know but i can say i think it's a choice you know. it's like a choice like a choice for me where. these. where are the less extreme i don't think it's for me to even wear. so it's your petition of what you want to do what someone says yeah you have to hit by joe why i don't wear one yeah so that i don't have to anything i don't want to have the white but i would not have to follow your religion right but i don't but i but i but they're nice and it's a messy line. because you know you know i don't want to i don't want to. you know to make me feel like you have to say something very much like i can i guess my own personal opinion. on

the whole thing. all my life i've tried delicate line between how i want to behave my family expects of me. and being here is dragging up lots of my old battles. and even that was like living. in the car and i stood outside the car and the music was playing and listening just like shimmy to i don't. know what you're going to get in trouble if you don't and i was like. i haven't talked to anyone that's my age. all of that is talk to adults and men unlike our 100 minders.

you. cannot mungo religious piece because of a recipe called western music they're on instagram so they are in the open and are still getting away with it. thank you. but. still that is a good thing. i decided to take up an invite from a friend of a friend have been speaking to on line to go to the launch party the magazine that is 7 minutes away. i know that jessie got that look and look right well by the way when we come in ok ok i don't know why but i was going to say ok ok i'm not. we're here i know. but i'm not.

going. to. that's. going to go. to. her. destination magazine it's a government indoor city guide which also promotes up and coming some of these figures. was right. you. may.

be. signing my friend to right. know my. wife and my. family and our you have our not our. like. this whole.

thing. oh. oh oh oh oh oh. oh. 000000 . i mean i know. i wake up feeling more ease after seeing what's possible in saudi.

but just when i'm starting to feel better about saudi there's news about the missing journalist. cia directors heard audio recording of interrogation in the killing a saudi crown prince battles to contain crisis another say he didn't is he died in a chokehold a stir resisting attempts to turn decidedly his body was then ruled into robin given to the corporate to dispose of so effectively what's happening is the crown prince is now saying we did do it that he wasn't aware of it and the people that didn't do it will pay for it here's a picture of. the son i guess of the deceased meeting the current prince. they hit it so scared. i go for a ride to clear my head which in my case. of the wheel.

if i'm seriously going to consider living here i need to see whether i could meet someone. until they sense that. point of ok in the open. air like. i'm. going off tomorrow. i think you know when someone type you have a place and then you have plenty of good for much of a time. i hate to be that may say but. i could never be that someone has to. but when i raise the idea of going on

a date tells me no way. i called my brother back in the u.k. to get his advice and listen but the concept of me going and sitting at a table with another man effectively all course years i have but just like the strangest thing to them like it now ideal world it was ideal world i'd like to read most of the time to fix you up we saw a whole new tricks of these just keep going the facts next topic so now you get them right i must apologize that you want to live sorry but the end of the day i say go for it because you can do it i wouldn't take any series of white their thoughts on this wherever the consequences are it's i'd reversable was that i had no guilt actually guilty or there's nothing to be guilty i am letting. go of letting people die because of this guy the

only thing people don't want to be getting ourselves here right ok guys i better go because i've been in the room with a locked door for a while that makes it look like i'm like. i need 3 or a no i did not need to reverse the reversal you did this. on the who are by yourself to be why you have to. be shut me about how the real. estate among them told ok. eastham it was the outside world still folks in the case we've decided to go to mecca. have us but have a several have you know maybe they meet somebody and they pay to help us through it means that it's. got a lot to offer to hunt you and your sponsor company told me in the time you enter since i'm having to be more happy to go home and my sis.

man helps me into the city from. this to purity need to be in the free entry mecca . that had only that's not the hit by sandy hazard yet here you know that many of them have looked at me and been in a stare and i think it's about. getting them almost like he's. for the 1st time in a while i start to think more closely about my relationship with god. our. family said that she wanted us to do more together and i suddenly feel guilty for doing it without her. and. it was the more you're. going to hear me. when i ring it after i get past the

mountains. like. this. to the depths of. spirit. he was living in the moment. when she was on. the left in this thing if you're going to expose your baby. and it looks. like it's lies a mama had given as out that this is just normal thing i was. kind. of mean i think i said you know that you know one of them i was. a students. aren't allowed to enter mecca so they stop so that just turn back.

misuari at me when they. see. there's something incredibly moving about being here with thousands of other people.

the historian will not be given that kind of money to give to young business only yes i know well that. yes i have a monk and event. which it could be you know like the demise would it not yet because i think i'm weak. either it will get. i get that yeah i think the good in the going to go with this and have. it. there's a lot about being muslim that i love and visiting mecca reminded me of that but the way south interprets the rules of islam sometimes feels wrong it scares me but as

a woman i wouldn't be totally in control of my own life if i lived here. i'm not sure i'd want to raise a daughter in a country where her male relatives can make her decisions for her. just recently i heard about the case of her half of. a saudi teenager who fled to thailand to escape her family in saudi alleging abuse. and there are so many other stories like hers. but as i keep finding my sanity nothing is clear cut. her looking for a place to exercise i come across a mixed group of men and women who run in public. i decide to join the next session but 1st i need to find something to run and.

this is your gen. davidson we're on a train here. women have only been able to run in public in the last year so i'm because most women still wouldn't feel comfortable running with. james. has designed special sports. this was our original yeah it was. it comes in 2 different ones it comes and become a member of the ring and then there's the arch. which is more suitable for running . or biking. and i tried i am for sure. yeah. right this is all right and yet. it's just not where i was if i could literally do whatever you're. like me because

it started making a connection with people like i'm working in your area and then we see each other from far away it's like we both know that i was slow reading this this weird and yet really connection feeling between people i think that's the change means not the saudis changing f one feels like let's kind of get together and it's pretty that these are like hubs of being like we're both doing it will be moving forward a little bit but it's not constantly i don't want to say anything like few months ago and now it's gotten so much better yeah because there are a lot of a lot more girls behind the wheel right now but it's like we still need a lot of work. speaking to jane reminds me that i've already been here a week but i still haven't driven a car. it's hard to believe the before june 2018 woman would be arrested for attempting to drive one of the ology right he's. going to try to head

with the surface of the wing and i go deaf and i just would guess he's going to manipulate me and i've been. and i was going to write about parts of the law and i wanted to just show what. i know is going to be a delicate matter but i tell my aunt that i want to drive a car but look sure she will we will for you right in front of serious timing because this here obviously you're worried about. caught driving rather than being allowed to carry. everything anything when the. lieutenant old alert is no. for the 1st time the look right now all right if you want so much right now so it's about keeping up appearances so if anything happens i'm creating abide. i was really understood just out. on the

field and called for it because i thought if you come here i need to see this last installment right on one or 2 years or more write everything that you and everyone can always. write ok then but i'm going to write strike. so you protect your own that's not going to meet one of the 1st i'm going to want to know your life well you might as we'll never be and give it again because if what they want is going to happen ok so i love everything you know he's very protective but it. was.

sort of. what. family you know. last month. or. 5. i decided to take my chances if i'm going to live here i need to be able to carry around a man. i might even be the 1st british woman to try consulting. with. our government minder is of the carbon to place me right and he's already decided where he wants me to try and. push him off the shelf. i don't. know. why because it's not so it still is official and.

what. it does it is. still. so. little right now it's something different. i haven't told them that this is my 1st time driving with an instructor i only got my license 2 weeks before coming. left afghanistan therefore there was a narrow focus tries to tell a. kid to pick out. just . caution it's nice houses look at that so the house is a palace. but the people who live here work us the clothes peter cook.

businessman in a high position to make up for their needs to get him in. the company. the fixer instructs me. to where he wants me to try. to. make you turn. that's a big statement into there. you're. of course saying so he'd use hearing you want is you've heard him. talk away before now i know you told me before but i don't we don't actually do you turns the u.k. there a little bit so now that they're there i can't really. and i need to understand the privilege that i have right now. where 2 women in the front seat of a car which is the only be available today in this kingdom. and there must be my i . am

a. police stop for a minute we ask our fixer to get the s.p. from the other car so we can play some music. it's not mean just her alone that gives it activists who campaigned for the right to try this. on the evening of september 26th. stop at home in riyadh saudi arabia eyeing her smartphone she was not the only one under god order that she's been with the government had made some more calls to suffer other women's rights activists and the government effectively want to take credit they don't want the activists to take credit for they feel like they're like we as men get the t.v. . even though they've been advocating for it for years. the article goes on to say the legend others are now in prison. minutes later the me turned sour. my are you outside you don't need to be outside it turns out the one of our local

crew overheard us talking about the imprisoned activists and immediately reported it to the government minder. the people in charge of the company are furious. we didn't like it this is crazy like i literally was just reading an article. because we're going to be fighting for the right to drive and i can drive because women are fighting for the right to drive because we're going to fall for the rights drive now i can drive. it in the car for a 2nd just get. she's business said stop killing israelis be to make him pay me. she's like that's not so this is not what he said it was i'm going to this is going to trial. i don't want you to come. on why should i care about activists the only reason women can drive is because the truth about it. seems to strike. control is. to drive us back home and tell us

not to film outside the house or the content the government and react i'm not going to sit here. and wait. but what i wouldn't give to be at home right now. and it will be get was a little by. little it was. seeing. you. if you. could see shipping. rates from. the go go. go for short.

don't need. for. the fix is to stop replying term messages we finally received a text from our office in london. 'd your face is worth. nothing i do know he has heard that the social might pull the plug on the film in question we're still waiting for a letter from them maybe servicemen you know vile but the current situation and the pulling it. so now are. no really like now one.

piece in doubt by. elsa coming back from a country that gets a sentimental value. i'm so nervous scully mamak yes you know. the next morning we call our boss. out of the country. things out as we speak singers the government official with the from mission because they are. angry saying we have done. wrong things by.

any sense since like women's cry cry or the current story of the south. tree chance. i'm disappointed because like i just guessed this week was like reduce so many find the missing things that joe doing this week is such a shame so is really female entrepreneurs disagree and i was going running with a running client i mean i don't dislike this country and i'd like the people have had a nice time i mean it's almost like you have to leave the country of the students over the kind of. thing that they want to do and let them do it don't don't try is the west to china possibly i feel like i'm something that they don't want to they don't want us to shine a light on their own country. and next step of

the slack now it's like how far it's just a shame more than failing to shame yeah i'm really disappointed. that it looking car or when trunk ok just just. fine job you all and i think this will be a very big experience for both of you ok for us also ok for me i don't want to feel sorry after all there's nothing. to it. ok. so obvious 3 feet. east he is both feet from the ears. were picked on to the next flight to london. it's going to be

a long long walk to be mean i really. love my mom i'm not going to be. like. i'm sad to have to leave mt so abruptly. i came here to see if i could live in the country i was born in and the supposedly new saudi arabia. i despite the horror story of the murder of the saudi journalist . i was willing to give it a chance that i might restore my sense of identity. but it seems assad hasn't really changed enough. i'm not wanted in this country. just because i mention the name of a female activist in an effort to understand what right have here's a woman. i don't think saudis a bad place but a lot would have to change before i could ever think about moving my life here.

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