East meets West; The mystery of Saudi Arabia with Abdul Thunayan

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Serial Entrepreneur businessman and Saudi Arabian native puts the record straight about what he thinks it's like to live in Saudi as a woman but also what some of those misconceptions are in Islamic culture. We talk about "chop chop square" where in past times you were beheaded for not conforming with the religious police or for adultery. We discuss what rights a woman or members of the LGBTQ+ community now has, how people date, get healthcare and even how they must dress! It's fair to say Abdul is part of the 1% having grown up in privilege, however, he is also one of the most down to earth humans I have ever met!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, and on this show,
0:06.9	we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:13.0	Ladies out there, our time is now. Let's get to it.
0:18.0	Our next guest is Saudi Arabian native Abdullah Thernayan.
0:24.5	And he's probably the most unlikely friend that I would have and recently traveled together
0:30.3	to Greece.
0:31.3	And there I really started to understand his culture.
0:34.6	So thrilled to have him on the show today to really unpick what it's like to live
0:40.2	in Saudi Arabia. He's a serial entrepreneur. He owns hotels. He owns restaurants. And he works all over
0:49.0	the world. So I'm thrilled to welcome him on to the show.
0:56.7	Abdullah, welcome to the show.
0:58.3	Thank you for having me.
1:02.2	It is so good to see you, although I have just seen you. We were together in Greece, and I learned a lot about you and your culture and wanted to
1:09.1	share that with the world. So thank you very much for being on the
1:13.7	show. And I'm going to attempt to say your whole name. Here we go. It's a lot easy to say
1:19.8	Habibi, but which is the word that I've heard like a million times. It's such a sweet word. It means
1:25.4	dear, I think, or dear love.
1:28.2	It does be in dear.
1:29.5	Dear, yeah.
1:31.6	Everyone's like Habibi.
1:32.8	I mean, you were saying Habibi to the taxi driver in Greece, so I didn't feel special.
1:37.2	Yeah.
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