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I never imagined that I would ever follow in the footsteps of Laurence of Arabia in any way shape or form to the world’s 12th largest country and the largest in the Middle East.
This, after all, is Saudi Arabia, a country of 13 provinces, a young country whose people have been living nomadically on this land for thousands of years. Yet from its inception as an absolute monarchy in 1947, the borders have been closed to non-Muslim tourists…