This article really resonates with me. I lived in Riyadh during my childhood for a decade and I'm around the same age as the author. I wasn't an Aramco brat as

This article really resonates with me. I lived in Riyadh during my childhood for a decade and I'm around the same age as the author. I wasn't an Aramco brat as my father was a British english teacher on the civilian airport so we were in a mixed expat-Saudi compound, which didn't have nearly as many amenities or protections afforded to the expat-only compounds. "Today, Saudi Arabia feels to me like an estranged father. Someone I love and mistrust simultaneously, whose news I follow at a distance, with a keen interest I’ve tried to quell but can’t. I remain restless, dissatisfied with both of my homelands, critical of how they relate to each other and how they treat their people." Rare is the gift of a writer who expresses more clearly what I could not clearly articulate to myself over the intervening decades.