The Bedouin Eye — Saudi Arabia, through a local's eyes.

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If you visit Al Qassim during winter, you may notice something interesting on weekends. Instead of everyone heading to shopping malls and cafés…
Long before highways, airports and trucks connected Saudi Arabia with its neighbors, merchants from Al Qassim were already crossing enormous distan…
If you want to understand the traditional food of Al Qassim, do not begin with rice. Begin with wheat . Cracked wheat slowly cooked until cream…
Food can tell you a great deal about a place. In Al Qassim, some of the most traditional sweet foods begin with ingredients that were always clos…
After visiting Buraidah, Unaizah and the better-known destinations of Al Qassim, it is easy to think you have already understood the region. You …
Some places in Saudi Arabia are interesting because of what you can see. Uyun Al-Jiwa is interesting because of the stories attached to the land …