The Bro Code of Saudi Culture: 666 Rules on how the Human Body should Act Inside Arabia
This work sets out a series of rules meant as guidelines to live by and behave properly among Saudis and/or to understand their culture. Most of these rules have long been unwritten and only verbally communicated among each other. As a result, visitors to Saudi Arabia have been unable to follow these rules appropriately.
Those interested in Saudis or their civilisation have reported neither understanding nor recognising these rules. For such reasons, these rules need to be spelled out in bold print.
This publication has been written to respond to this need, as well as to inform a broad audience on the nature of gender roles and relations in this country.
Every culture is governed by an internal code of conduct, and this work offers the first written code of Saudi society. It is the product of close observations of daily activities and more than 2,000 interviews with nationals and residents, over the past four years. This code shows 666 (often previously unrecorded) rules on how the human body should act inside Saudi Arabia. It covers everything from top to bottom; the face, eyes, ears, mouth, extremities and genitals.
These rules must be carefully considered if one wishes to stay within the circle of Saudis. For easy reading, this book is presented as a ‘listicle’ (a piece of writing presented in the form of a numbered or bullet-pointed list).
- Print Length: 170 pages
- Publisher: Al Lily; 3 edition (April 16, 2016)
- Publication Date: April 16, 2016
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
About the Author
Dr Abdulrahman Al Lily is a bestselling author, an Oxford graduate and a Saudi professor. He has been an active writer and consultant on Saudi culture and the Arab region. He has published with Sage and three of the Big Four (the four biggest English-language academic publishing companies); Elsevier, Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has written for academic magazines (e.g. Australasian Science) and non-academic magazines (e.g. openDemocracy, Your Middle East, Green Prophet and Vocativ). Email: allili55@hotmail.com Website: https://abdulallily.wordpress.com
Abdulrahman Al Lily, PhD (Oxford), has published with Sage and three of the Big Four (the four biggest English-language academic publishing companies); Elsevier, Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has written for academic magazines (e.g. Australasian Science) and non-academic magazines (e.g. openDemocracy, Your Middle East, Green Prophet and Vocativ). He has pioneered an innovative approach in academic research, called crowd-authoring. For more information, please visit: https://abdulallily.wordpress.com/
Tradition is King: The Role of Saudi Tradition in Constraining and Expanding Behaviour
Many aspects of Saudi tradition have been left essentially almost untouched and unaffected by modern concepts and ideologies of the last few centuries. These aspects have passed unnoticed by international writers and slipped under the radar of the global media. Therefore, there is a need to capture every aspect of this tradition before its citizens move on and before its unique norms and values vanish.
One day, Saudi tradition will become history, and therefore there is a need for a descriptive account capturing this lifestyle and potential history. This book provides such an account, relying on more than 2,000 interviews and an intentional four-year observation of day-to-day life. It acts as the first academic piece to talk about this tradition from a descriptive and therefore ‘neutral’ perspective without being judgemental, taking sides or being politically skewed.
It has been found that Saudi tradition has at times constrained and at other times expanded behaviour about the body, yet these differences are often overlooked. Saudi nationals work around traditional restrictions on behaviour using various tools and strategies, e.g. using headphones to listen to what is traditionally unacceptable and streaming videos for the absence of movie theatres.
The organising concept for this investigation is the body and its parts (i.e. face, eyes, ears, mouth, waist, genitals and extremities), looking into the traditionally defined restrictions on the functionality of these body parts. The ‘take-home’ message is that tradition matters, having the ability to constrain and/or expand action.
- Print Length: 205 pages
- Publication Date: September 7, 2016
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
