All–can anyone explain what “wearing our ‘bishoots’” in the Al Maeena article means, ie the ‘bishoots’part? Thanks.

Great blog you have! As a psychiatrist and an aunt, I particularly liked the example in your post on 4 ways to treat people of the 5 year old who thought he had accepted to die to save his sister’s life. I may use that one as a teaching or research example–with all due credit of course!

Also how proud I am of the brave girls of Jeddah and particularly my sisters (whom I was surprised to see in the video too I must say!!!) in standing up to the crowds of cowardly belligerent men, who did not want to help, and stood in the way of women in helping out! (Whilst until today, together with the large group of volunteers) the girls are working around the clock, those men (who tried to stop them) have given up and allowed these girls to prove them selves in our society- hands on, doing the jobs that would of only be perceived as a “mans” job only weeks ago!! Well-done girls!!!!

However we must not forget the sad reality we still live in– I was told a story about a guy during this catastrophe who got stuck in the floods with his wife and daughter in the car. The guy swam to safety, and as he did not have the strength to swim back to save his family, but he did however have to the strength to stand in the way of young men who wanted to rescue the wife and daughter—may they rest in peace

I hope this is a harsh reminder of the kind of aggression the younger generation of females (and males) are facing in today’s Saudi society– God bless you Jeddah- God bless you ahl Jeddah- and god bless you the people who make me proud to be Saudi, because you are the shimmer of hope that will put us back on the map!