The words I learned in the Kingdom

RIYADH: “It’s strange, the world is like a caravan,” Mohammed said to me. “Whether you are ready to move forward or not, the caravan will.” The stoicism and calm with which he accepted the sometimes harsh realities of life was new to me at the time, coming from a more idealistic, and at times naive, way of thinking. The mindset and philosophy that Mohammed lived by became one of the qualities I admired the most in many of the Saudi people I met over the years. He called it as he saw it, told me