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Raving in Riyadh – The New Saudi Arabia with Sami Hamdi

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The Saudi Youth Are Celebrating the Absence of Gruff Men in Long Bids

Young Saudis welcome the absence of gruff men speaking to them in derogatory ways, says Fawaz Gerges. Many Saudi youth have lived their lives seeing everybody in a bid, very gruff, looking at you and telling you that you are a vile individual because you're doing so and so in not an appropriate manner said Gerges. There is often an assumption that when you see videos of thousands of Saudis at some of these concepts, that this reflects that the youth are on board with Mohammed bin Salman," he adds.

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