Author: Marshall Jones Jr.

When I moved to Saudi, probably the single most culturally significant difference was that the weekend was on Thursday and Friday. It took me weeks to even know what day it was on a daily…

Most of the guys didn’t want to visit Riyadh. “Just a bigger Jubail,” they said. The ones who had been before or even lived there didn’t have great things to say about it either. Still,…

Knock, knock. “Who’s there?” “It’s me.” “It’s me who?” “It’s me, Marshall. What’s going on?” Oh, no! I wish I hadn’t answered, he thought. Are you one of the countless masses of people who wish…