RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became and Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 11, 2015 at 11:36 am
I had hieroglyphic Egyptian, not modern Egyptian Arabic, in mind but am interested that you said the Egyptian Arabic is what Hollywood uses. I didn't know that. The foreign guest workers in the UAE, I take it they occupy a role similar to the Mexicans and Guatemalans who come to the USA, though we have birthright citizenship and can't deport someone who was born here of foreign parents.
What's curious is that al-Jazeera in Qatar is able to take up religion, sex, drugs, and so on although they don't go nearly as far with it as western studios do. I'm curious what causes the differences in attitudes. Is it something the kings prescribe, or is it tradition that binds even kings?
If they accept and like it in the UAE, then science fiction might be a good genre to encouch controversial themes in a futuristic, coded form that is usually inoffensive on its surface. Asimov and Heinlein did this in the USA back when you couldn't write frankly about sex.
What's curious is that al-Jazeera in Qatar is able to take up religion, sex, drugs, and so on although they don't go nearly as far with it as western studios do. I'm curious what causes the differences in attitudes. Is it something the kings prescribe, or is it tradition that binds even kings?
If they accept and like it in the UAE, then science fiction might be a good genre to encouch controversial themes in a futuristic, coded form that is usually inoffensive on its surface. Asimov and Heinlein did this in the USA back when you couldn't write frankly about sex.
