Word: jeddah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat of a summer's day, the highway curving across the desert from the port city of Jeddah to Mecca blurs into a shimmering ribbon of black. As the temperature climbs into the low hundreds, mishaps multiply: the blacktop is so hot that rubber tires explode and send cars swerving. No matter what the season, however, the same message greets travelers only a few miles outside the holiest of Muslim cities. Non-Muslims, the blue-and-white sign warns in English, must now leave the road. Only Muslims are allowed to visit Mecca; others must take a circuitous detour...
Nasser Sharief Jeddah...
...smart Saudi women come to such shops for assignations. In one lurid segment, royal ladies are shown cruising a desert lovers' lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with...
...life and death of Princess Mashall, a lively young grandniece of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid. Mashall, whose arranged marriage soured, supposedly went to study at a Beirut university and there, by one account, acquired her lover, a Saudi commoner; the two were publicly executed in Jeddah (she was shot, he beheaded) for their all-too-public transgressions after they were caught trying to flee Saudi Arabia. But when Thomas found it difficult to pin down facts about the princess, he decided to use her in his film as "a symbol, an excuse to probe into the private center...
...figure in white was suddenly red with blood. The scene, from a film titled Death of a Princess, re-enacted the double execution in 1977 of a married Saudi Princess, Mashall, 19, and her unmarried commoner lover for having committed adultery. Witnessed by hundreds in a parking lot in Jeddah, the executions were in accordance with the laws of the Koran. Shown over Britain's independent television network last week, the dramatization touched off an international furor and strained British-Saudi relations...