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Cleopatra
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Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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I very much doubt the Saudi customs officials will take the slightest interest in your WW2 books, even assuming your bags get inspected, itself unlikely these days.
As for 'banned books' I have heard of embassies providing lists, but I'd imagine they're pretty hard to get hold of. However, given the fact that, bland coffee table type books aside, any and all serious books on Saudi Arabia seem unavailable in the Kingdom, I would guess that just about any book on KSA that you might actually want to read would be liable to 'banning'. That said, I have brought books into the country which might well be considered 'controversial' and have never had the slightest problem. As I say, tear out any 'risque' photos and/or cover the book with plain paper, and I'd be surprised if you had any problems.
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| My sense of detail, communication, organization and timeliness is vast superior to that of the Saudi's |
That may be so. However, your sense of the correct use of adverbs and misplaced apostrophe's, is vast inferior to that of many Saudi student's I have known. |
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ootii
Joined: 27 Oct 2005
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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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| My main concern was regarding customs/taxes as I heard somwhere they did have taxes. |
I've ordered books from Amazon UK and they got here relatively quickly and unmolested. The package didn't even appear to have been tampered with, so Amazon have a better reputation than my mother, whose packets full of old bank statements and free balance transfer offers they never fail to open and scrutinize, in clear violation of the Basic Law which guarantees the privacy of postal communications.
Cyberbloc also banned Widipedia a couple of weeks ago. If you write to them they will sometimes unblock sites. They may just tot up the number of complaints, or they may carefully consider every one (in some alternate universe, surely). I once complained about their banning Haaertz and it was later unblocked. Somehow, I don't think that hundreds of people here read Haaertz, but then, who knows? |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Haaretz is banned? I must say that on the rare occasions I've wanted to read an article in that silly paper, I've had no problem doing so. Mind you, it's nearly always been via a link from another site, if that makes a difference. |
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