More young men in cars are chasing other cars they believe to contain young women, to try to give the women their phone numbers via Bluetooth. About half the girls were swaying and gyrating, without the slightest self-consciousness, among overstuffed sofas, heavy draperies, tables larded with figurines ...
Out With the Boys for a Night of Numbering
thelede.blogs.nytimes.comFound 67 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
Arab Woman Progressive Voice
arabwomanprogressivevoice.blogspot.comFound 68 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes, and 46 seconds ago, it turns out, did visit the women's quarters in Saudi Arabia (they sent a woman) for their part two on youth and love in Saudi Arabia. This article maybe a bit better; the author claims to have interviewed scores of Saudi women, not just two as her male colleague did. That helps.
boingboing.net
goes out driving one evening with group of teenage boys in Saudi Arabia hoping to get phone numbers of girls in cars.
A phone number written out on a piece of cardboard is "the classic approach," Fahad said, but most of the time he and his friends use Bluetooth to try to send their phone numbers directly to the cell phones of girls in the vicinity. Usually this means chasing cars containing women, but sometimes Fahad and his friends drive past the entrances of shopping malls where women wait for their drivers.
Found 66 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
freerepublic.com
The NY Times ^ | May 13, 2008 | KATHERINE ZOEPF
Found 67 days, 17 hours, 46 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
emirateseconomist.blogspot.com
2. Love and romance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . Blattman points to a series by Katherine Zoepf, writing in The Lede and the New York Times: Out With the Boys for a Night of Numbering ("chasing cars containing young girls and trying to give the girls their phone numbers via Bluetooth, or by holding written phone numbers up to their car windows"); Q&A about love and romance in Saudi Arabia ; and Love on Girls' Side of the Saudi Divide ("A cellphone picture of Alia's fiancé - a 25-year-old military man named Badr - was passed around, and the girls began pestering Alia for the details of her showfa.
Found 65 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
uncorrelated.com
Young love finds a way: âIf your family found out you were talking to a man online, thatâs not quite as bad as talking to him on the phone,â Ms. Tukhaifi explained. âWith the phone, everyone can agree that is forbidden, because Islam forbids a stranger to hear your voice. Online he only sees your writing, so thatâs slightly more open to interpretation. And some have discovered Jane Austen. That's a start. Next: Nancy Drew. Start with the younger girls. One more note--in my mom's version from the 30's, Nancy went off sleuthing alone in her roadster.
Found 68 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
thestencil.com
What I'm reading this morning:
1. The Washington Post documents some ugly, ugly racism encountered by Obama staffers across the country. Representative sample:
Karen Seifert, a volunteer from New York, was outside of the largest polling location in Lackawanna County, Pa., on primary day when she was pressed by a Clinton volunteer to explain her backing of Obama. "I trust him," Seifert replied. According to Seifert, the woman pointed to Obama's face on Seifert's T-shirt and said: "He's a half-breed and he's a Muslim.
Found 67 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
nytimes.com
Love on the Female Side of the Divide
Found 68 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
retributions.wordpress.com
A woman can't switch her phone's Bluetooth feature on in a public place without receiving a barrage of the love poems and photos of flowers and small children which many Saudi men keep stored on their phones for purposes of flirtation. And last year, Al Arabiya television reported that some young Saudis have started buying special "electronic belts," which use Bluetooth technology to discreetly beam the wearer's cellphone number and e-mail address at passing members of the opposite sex. [link ]
From an article in the New York Times on how young Saudi men continue to be-well-men despite the puritanical society.
Found 67 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
isaiahlim.wordpress.com
NYT :
… a practice called milk kinship that predates Islam and is still common in the Persian Gulf countries. A woman does not have to veil herself in front of a man she nursed as an infant, and neither do her biological children. The woman's biological children and the children she has nursed are considered "milk siblings" and are prohibited from marrying.
Found 67 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
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Found 67 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
pseudojournalist.blogspot.com
This is dehumanizing...
Found 67 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
boingboing.hexten.net
goes out driving one evening with group of teenage boys in Saudi Arabia hoping to get phone numbers of girls in cars.
A phone number written out on a piece of cardboard is "the classic approach," Fahad said, but most of the time he and his friends use Bluetooth to try to send their phone numbers directly to the cell phones of girls in the vicinity. Usually this means chasing cars containing women, but sometimes Fahad and his friends drive past the entrances of shopping malls where women wait for their drivers.
Found 66 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
house8.com
Saudi Arabia: Awfully difficult to "tap that."
âIâd say that maybe 3 out of 10 nights of numbering,we have some success,â Fahad explained.
âYou mean that 3 out of 10 nights you get a girl to talk to you?â I asked.
âNo, no,â Fahad laughed. âMaybe 3 out of 10 nights we get one phone number. Getting a girl to actually talk to you on the phone is much rarer. But it happens, so weâre always hoping.â
Found 66 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
newsoftheweird.blogspot.com
A man from Padua, Italy, was arrested in Venice with one of those shopping bags with a camera lens peeking out (and DVD's containing 3,000 images); he was a butt man, by the way.
Found 68 days, 49 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
righttruth.typepad.com
so it can disarm Hezbollah. He said the Shia Muslim Hezbollah movement had acted against its own people and was destabilizing Lebanon. (BBC)
Some are wondering if it's time to change our policies in Pakistan : Last week, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte called on Pakistan to drive extremism from its tribal areas, saying "we will not be satisfied" until all militant activity is under control.
Found 68 days, 12 hours, 57 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
sunnisisters.com
Salaam 'Alaikum
News… some of it tragic, some of it stupid.
'No Hope' For Children Buried in Rubble As you know, an estimated 10,000 people died in yesterday's 7.9 earthquake in central China . Among them are children who were in school at the time. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. The area, much of which is already underdeveloped, is a disaster zone, with rescuers unable to reach people by vehicle… in some places, they have been walking in to villages and towns one man at a time, single file, on foot.
Found 68 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
, this week we have published two articles on love and romance in Saudi Arabia; one about young men , by Michael Slackman and the other about young women , by Katherine Zoepf.
To broaden the discussion of the series, we have established an Arabic-language blog , to allow readers in the Middle East to read, and comment on, the articles.
Found 68 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com
When mom and dad teach a child…
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts…
…began training the girl in 2000 when she was 12, and forced her to engage in sex acts with him and with other men. According to the indictment, he also had the girl watch pornography on the Internet as a teaching tool.
The man with no follow through
A Japanese man who stole cash from a store by brandishing a knife turned himself in only five minutes later, saying he wanted to be punished, police said Monday.
Found 67 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
sigcarlfred.blogspot.com
When mom and dad teach a child... Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts... ...began training the girl in 2000 when she was 12, and forced her to engage in sex acts with him and with other men. According to the indictment, he also had the girl watch pornography on the Internet as a teaching tool. The man with no follow through A Japanese man who stole cash from a store by brandishing a knife turned himself in only five minutes later, saying he wanted to be punished, police said Monday.
Found 67 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
walrusmagazine.com
Interesting piece in the New York Times regarding the divide of the sexes in Saudi Arabia. Link .
Here it comes… the first documented genetically modified human embryo. Link .
Got this from Read/WriteWeb : Brand Tags add tags to brand logos and it publish them in a tag cloud around the logo. Link .
Though a few days old: Barnes and Noble heart Zinio. I do like Zinio 's product (digital magazines) quite a bit, but their pricing structure for publishers is terrible. I am hoping that in the next six months someone will merge a digital magazine format with current or future e-ink reader.
Found 68 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
sunburntmirth.wordpress.com
Katherine Zoepf has been doing a NYTimes blog series on dating in Saudi Arabia. Her latest entry is about numbering - when Saudi boys drive in cars alongside the cars of Saudi girls and wave their phone numbers on cardboard and send Bluetooth messages, hoping to get some reply.
But I want to draw attention to this portion of the post:
I looked around. We were surrounded by several other cars, all containing young men and all trying to get the attention of the figures in the GMC, while simultaneously trying to edge each other off the road at high speed.
Found 66 days, 13 hours, 16 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
jezebel.com
The New York Times has a series of articles on Love in Saudi Arabia. That's capital L "Love," the romantic kind of love as seen in movies and sung about in pop songs. The articles focus on Riyadh, which has strict Islamic laws. Women and men are severely segregated. Women are not allowed to be in a public place alone, without a man. Men are not allowed in malls because they may see women shopping. Women have only recently been able to drive; they are usually driven around the city in cars with tinted windows, attend girls-only schools and universities, and eat in "family" sections of restaurants, which are partitioned from the sections used by single males.
Found 67 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes, and 18 seconds ago
xrdarabia.org
The New York Times runs two articles, yesterday and today, on the problems young Saudis face in looking for love. Both are worth reading as they take first, the opinions and attitudes of young men, then in the second piece those of girls.
There's not really much new here to anyone who's read Girls of Riyadh , excepting perhaps the emphasis on Bluetooth technology. The article tend to focus on those aspect of young Saudi lives that are so very different from those in the West, but how these young men and women behave would seem pretty ordinary to a traditional Hindu in India.
Found 67 days, 20 hours, 21 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
engineeredcoherence.wordpress.com
Foreign reports in the New York Times could as well be works of fiction, but I found a couple of recent articles to be interesting nonetheless. [1] , [2] . Interesting in a very dark sense. I am trying to figure, how the system got to the point where it is and how it manages to operate against such obvious motivations. With a carrot and stick of reputation it is claimed. How lame can that be? Seriously! There has to be something more tangible than that at work; which, I am sure, will never show up on the pages of the New York Times, ever.
Found 67 days, 20 hours, 21 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
