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Crossing the Kingdom - Portraits of Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
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Crossing the Kingdom - Portraits of Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
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For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of
deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes,
oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring
Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world
much more complex and inspiring than he could have ever imagined.
With vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives, Danforth
takes us across the Kingdom, from the headquarters of Saudi Aramco,
the country's national oil company on the Persian Gulf, to the
centuries-old city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with its
population of undocumented immigrants from all over the Muslim
world. He presents detailed portraits of a young woman jailed for
protesting the ban on women driving, a Sufi scholar encouraging
Muslims and Christians to struggle together with love to know God,
and an artist citing the Quran and using metal gears and chains to
celebrate the diversity of the pilgrims who come to Mecca. Crossing
the Kingdom paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture
and the lives of individuals, who like us all grapple with
modernity at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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