Category: Expat

I always worry that my car will FAIL the periodic inspection at the Motor Vehicle Periodic Inspection (MVPI) center. It's an old car and it sometimes does. When it fails, I have to run around looking...

Friends and family often ask me if I am permitted to work in Saudi Arabia. As a dependent woman sponsored by her expat husband living and working in the kingdom, legally I am not allowed to have a...

In Saudi Arabia, non-Muslim expats often say to me, ‘You get treated better here because you are Muslim.’ The fact that they are not, leads them to believe that in general Saudi people behave...

Our readers often comment that getting Saudi nationality is a near impossibility. I thought so, too. However, I discovered that in reality, the Saudi government awards citizenship by royal decree to...

I know several Saudi women married to foreign (non-Saudi) men. Now, they have children and live happily together here in Saudi Arabia. Such marriages are not commonplace, but they do...

I am so glad that flights have returned to normal out of Saudi Arabia's 28 national airports. It is somewhat of a relief to all of us that following weeks of Coronavirus flight lockdown, the...