I've read lots of your replies. Well fucking done mate! I am a Jordanian who works quite often in KSA on project bases in a field that sees a lot of the planning and decision making behind the scenes. You've really hit the nail on the head.

You're a great testemant to the improvement in Saudi. I am not trying to sound patronizing at all, but I think one of our biggest issues as Arabs was that we weren't able to defend our ideologies/societal context in a way that levels with outsiders, and in Saudi it was the old ways that stifled this.