Expat Chronicles of an Expatriate in Saudi Arabia |
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| Author:
| Stafford, Lyn C. |
| Editor:
| Stafford, Lyn C. |
| Original Author:
| Stafford, Lyn C. |
| Cover Design by:
| Horner, Christine |
| ISBN: | 979-8-218-19075-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2023 |
| Publisher: | Eastern Lake Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Lyn Stafford writes her memoir about her time in the 1980s, when she leaves a low-paying job in Alabama to sign a two-year contract in Saudi Arabia. There, she will help launch a new medical journal for the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh to be named The Annals of Saudi Medicine. She knows that her decision will cost her. Even though her family's future is the reason for her going to the Middle East, her life in the Kingdom is fraught with risks she never planned for, and the...
More DescriptionLyn Stafford writes her memoir about her time in the 1980s, when she leaves a low-paying job in Alabama to sign a two-year contract in Saudi Arabia. There, she will help launch a new medical journal for the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh to be named The Annals of Saudi Medicine. She knows that her decision will cost her. Even though her family's future is the reason for her going to the Middle East, her life in the Kingdom is fraught with risks she never planned for, and the unintended consequences of taking those risks. It seems her fears of not being able to be mother to her three children and daughter to her parents from so many thousands of miles away may all be coming true. But the immediate problems arrive on her doorstep because she has arrived at a moment in history, the third Saudi Arabian Five-Year Plan, when all expatriates and their jobs are at risk. She soon finds out how vulnerable she and all her friends in that hospital are to corruption, surveillance, and even violence by the Hospital's Security Forces. With the help of letters from home and especially from the expatriate underground, which consisted mostly of ham radio operators and returning expats smuggling in news, she begins to see how what she cannot see is affecting everything she can.This curious narrative is about the remarkable, sometimes foolhardy, men and women who navigate an exotic but treacherous landscape. Lyn's carefully researched memoir explores the lives of expatriates in a crazy, politically mixed-up, often dangerous, but beautiful world that seems to have lost its compass.