Where on earth the government of a country has the right to name your own children? Yep, you guissed that right. Here in Saudi Arabia. Maram Makkawi writes a good column on how government can iterrupt something that is none of its business. “Unfortunately, we have a strong popular culture, supported by many regulations, that gives others the chance to intervenes in one’s most private matters,” she says.
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I remember a Saudi family I knew wanted to name their child after the father’s grandmother. The problem was- it was the same name as his wife, which was somehow a no-no. So, they had the baby here in the US and named her that name anyway. Bit of a loophole perhaps