{"id":12259,"date":"2011-11-12T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T07:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2011-11-12T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T07:40:18","slug":"the-eyes-have-it-how-saudi-women-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/the-eyes-have-it-how-saudi-women-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Eyes Have It&#8217;: How Saudi Women &#8216;Speak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/muslim_women_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12260\" title=\"muslim_women_2\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/muslim_women_2-e1321083594739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a>There really should be a movie made about the Saudi girls and how they can say so much just with their eyes.\u00a0 It\u2019s really something to see how the girls can flirt and express themselves only with their eyes when seeing young men in their age group at a local mall.\u00a0 The man in turn will respond to her with his own expressions and smile.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes though the young women are simply flirting or learning to flirt.\u00a0 They will practice their \u201ceye smiles\u201d on their father and uncles.\u00a0 Even when not wearing a veil, the young women remain masters at speaking with their eyes.\u00a0 There is no need to see a smile for the smile is already shining through the deep brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>When I happened to listen to singer Scotty McCreery\u2019s song \u2018The Trouble with Girls\u2019 it immediately reminded me of the encounters between young Saudi women and men.\u00a0 The video was filmed in an American school where boys and girls are not segregated and gives a fair depiction of what a typical school is like in regards to no segregation.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least I\u2019d like to mention that Scotty is a North Carolina resident too.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/s91\/american-idol\/news\/a350138\/scotty-mccreery-im-looking-forward-to-watching-new-american-idol.html\">link<\/a> which also contains the video.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched the video I thought a Saudi version of the video should be made by a young Saudi singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN BEDU: &#8216;The eyes are windows to the soul&#8217; and if you have any doubt about the range of expression they are capable of just spend some time with Saudi women <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":12260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,90,482,10,5],"tags":[2713,18275,7749,133,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259"}],"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=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}