Your Door presents a comprehensive glimpse at the Arabian culture fully influenced by the Islamic religion. A potpourri of an Arab's traditional way of life is provided. This book is a must for any person visiting the Middle East. The book offers answers to questions not finger-pointing accusations that history often delivers. Included are explanations on religious traditions, for example prayer calls, as well as Arabic recipes, tales from the past, an introduction to day-to-day Arabic language, recipe for henna, weddings, prayer beads (worry beads), windtowers, desert roses, camels, architecture, falconry and Bedouins, to name just a few.
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I don't have any review available - however I have sold over 12,000 copies. A book store in Saudi Arabia - Jarir Bookstore (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) does an annual review in the English Arab News. The U.S. Military purchased bulk quantities of my book to give to all staff transferring to the Middle East for orientation. Also, Shell Oil (Houston, Texas) stopped sending its staff on week-long orientation in Washington, D.C. and purchased bulk quantities of my book for their staff. -- Anonymous reviewer
Praised the illustrated book of Your Door to Arabia and added that it would have appeal to Southlanders. Congratulations were also offered for the research and writing of the book. -- The Southland Times, Saturday 11 July 1992.
Praised the illustrated book of Your Door to Arabia and added that it would have appeal to Southlanders. Congratulations were also offered for the research and writing of the book. -- The Southland Times, Saturday 11 July 1992.
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Over 12,000 copies of this book have already been sold since first being published in 1986. The book is approved for publication and distribution by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Information and Publications. A Saudi Arabian bookstore regularly orders a shipment to stock their stores located throughout the country. When the book was first published the US Military based in Jubail, Saudi Arabia ordered the book in bulk quantities to issue to its military staff as orientation to the local culture. Shell Oil out of Houston also ordered the book in bulk to present to staff transferring to Saudi Arabia as an orientation tool. Prior to my book Shell Oil staff were flown to Washington, D.C. to attend a weeklong orientation course. The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia on 4 January 1993 advised that the book was added to their frequently distributed list of privately published works for use to travelers to Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia visitor guide 1990,
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This review is from: Your Door to Arabia (Paperback)
A small, 108-page paperback tourist's guide to Saudi Arabia (but nothing like a backpacker's guide!). Issued first in 1986 as "Al Baab: Your Door to Arabia", with a second revised edition in 1991 titled just "Your Door to Arabia", written by a guy who apparently couldn't find anything more informative back then. Then it may have been one of the better `introductory' guides before visiting Arabia; still okay today, if you can't find anything else. I read it in about a half-hour. It briefly (just barely) discusses both men's and women's dress attire, and how it varies from region to region. It is the only booklet that I have read that gives a recipe for making the henna dye for women's hands or men's hair and beard. It describes the incense burner (mebkhara) and the sheeshad (water pipe). It presents 2 pages of Arab-English words: days, time, food, greetings, etc. It explains the Arab calendar, khol, 18 pages of recipes, and provides the barest details of Mohammad, Islam theology, and mentions that several Arab cities were founded near water wells (but not a travel guide to any city!). Has some hand-drawings, but no photographs. Has been replaced by many other tourist guides.
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