{"id":662,"date":"2008-09-19T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-09-19T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:26:11","slug":"saudi-women-find-an-unlikely-role-model-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/09\/19\/saudi-women-find-an-unlikely-role-model-oprah\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Women Find an Unlikely Role Model: Oprah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-662\">\n<p>Found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/19\/world\/middleeast\/19oprah.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=world\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> today in the New York Times.\u00c2\u00a0 Its very interesting &#8211; young Saudi women are watching Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s show in droves because she addresses subjects Saudi women rarely get to discuss, for example racism.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in Jubail, I noticed (through side-ways glances &#8211; you never &#8220;eyeball&#8221; a woman in Saudi Arabia, you could get stoned, and I mean people throwing rocks at you) that the different ethnic groups, most notably Yemenites, dressed uniquely.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the Saudis I talked with (men of course) talked about bigotry and racism; for example, Saudis typically consider themselves to be the best in the world because, in part, they protect the holy places in Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah is respected by Saudi women partly because she pulled herself up from next to nothing, and she dresses conservatively.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubai channel won&#8217;t show episodes concerned with homosexuality, for example, but they say they are not censoring much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-662\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 662);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-662\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-662\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this article today in the New York Times.\u00c2\u00a0 Its very interesting &#8211; young Saudi women are watching Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s show in droves because she addresses subjects Saudi women rarely get to discuss, for example racism. When I was in Jubail, I noticed (through side-ways glances &#8211; you never &#8220;eyeball&#8221; a woman in Saudi Arabia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[296,2348,295],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saudi-arabia","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-aG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}