Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

I have been getting many comments from people who randomly arrive on my site who read some of my old articles. That’s fine and great. However, a lot of people just get mad at something I said a year or two ago, and then think I am so closed minded for speaking about issues that concern my culture only and seem odd and not normal to everyone else’s. They state that I am not being an open minded person and so Arabic and that’s why I speak the way I am and think I am “rebellious,” and that’s not what a TRUE rebel person should be.

Ok, fine! Think what you like. I am not going to start talking about true “rebellious” issues that don’t concern me as an Arab. I will however, talk about issues that make me wonder why Arabs act upon them and it is not part of the way they were raised. We are a conservative culture, we cannot deny that. That does not make me closed minded! So I don’t understand why non-Arabs cannot understand that? This site is about a Rebellious Arab Girl and not Rebellious Girl.

I am giving out a book titled: Girls Of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea. It’s a great book. It is written as a series of emails to one another to an online forum/group of the stories of four Saudi girls. If you are interested in knowing a bit more about the Saudi girls way of living, then you will learn a lot about it! You will definetly enjoy it!

How to enter?

1. You have to be an active member of my site. As in comment all the time, participate in various discussions, come up with topics for me to write about that interest you or want my opinion on.

2. You have to spread the word of this contest and my blog. As in advertise the site for me on your blog or in social networks such as Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon, etc.

Who can enter?

Anyone can enter from anywhere in the world. The book is written in English! If you like reading English that is.

Contest deadline?

September 30, 2008. Winner will be announced on my site and contacted via email the next day. I will mail out the book soon after. I will not be responsible if the book got lost in the mail. So if you live in a country that has iffy mail problems, then don’t blame me! :p