{"id":10262,"date":"2011-08-15T20:29:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2011-08-16T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T04:32:24","slug":"relationships-the-subtle-art-of-flirting-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/relationships-the-subtle-art-of-flirting-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationships: The Art of Flirting in Saudi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some marriages continue to be arranged in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 These can be marriages to first cousins, second cousins or into a tribe where there are good relations and history.\u00a0 I always enjoyed watching how the young men and women from within an extended family or tribe would subtly flirt with one another.\u00a0 In most families segregation between young men and women was practiced.\u00a0 They could be in the same home visiting relatives but would be in separate rooms.<\/p>\n

I could always tell when a young woman was going to \u201cmistakenly\u201d enter an area where a young man may be seating.\u00a0 She would not have on her abaya for she\u2019s been segregated with the other women.\u00a0 She may go to a nearby mirror where she freshens her make-up and her hair.\u00a0 She may also spray a little more perfume over her body.\u00a0 When she believes no one is watching her, she casually walks towards the area where the men are located.<\/p>\n

Normally the door to the men\u2019s salon will be open and she will walk past allowing the men a quick glance at her in her uncovered glory.\u00a0 Of course if someone, such as another woman, were to say something or worse yet, if a man were coming out of the salon, she would feign great embarrassment and return speedily to the ladies salon.<\/p>\n

Most of the time these incidents would take place when men were leaving.\u00a0 The woman may enter the hallway where the man can catch a glimpse as he walks out the door.\u00a0 This is known as the subtle flirting of unmarried Saudi women inside the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMERICAN BEDU: I have often watched how young women subtly signal their interest in a member of the opposite sex who may be visiting their home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":10266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,90,482,10,5],"tags":[18275,133,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}