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Doing my part here and sharing my experience, as I have done before in this forum. I was a PhD student there until my little daughter (4yo at the time) was kid
by moralestapia 4y ago
Doing my part here and sharing my experience, as I have done before in this forum.
I was a PhD student there until my little daughter (4yo at the time) was kidnapped by academic staff and I had to negotiate our safe return to our home country. I still can't believe the kind of abuse we went through and it baffles me how the people that orchestrated this are still there, no consequences at all, after committing a very serious crime against me and my family.
I am writing everything down and plan to publish it on a website someday, because I want others to be aware of this, particularly young students like I was at the time.
To set things straight, I don't put the blame on this on the Saudi government or the Saudi people. From my experience, they are well-intended on this and wish to do good to themselves and others; some people I met there are my friends to this day. I honestly believe that not even Saudi authorities know in detail what is actually going on.
Anyway, with regards to this particular university, it is a place thriving with sociopaths, who are not from Saudi, and who run the place as if it was their own personal kingdom.
Due to the special circumstances of the university, the Saudi government has little involvement with it and it behaves like its own self-contained jurisdiction (even though is not). This created a situation where there is a remote, isolated place with almost unlimited money, run by people who have severe psychological issues and have free, unsupervised reign over what happens there and with an artificial hierarchy of directors/VPs/professors/students/workers that dictates your whole life (because that is basically your whole life while you are there). And then, what happened is that they inadvertently created a Stanford prison experiment of an unprecedented scale, and it is really as bad as you can imagine.
- danrocks 4y agoIt is quite the claim to be making without providing any details. I feel it does not strengthen your argument to do so.
- burnished 4y agoA personal anecdote isn't an argument.
- moralestapia 4y agoThanks @burnished. I cannot do much more other than telling my story. People are then free to reach their own conclusions. I wish I've read something like this before going there so that is part of the reason why I share it.
- danrocks 4y agoA personal anecdote without evidence is barely a valid anecdote, specially with such extraordinary claims. This person is accusing the staff of the university of very serious crimes but no evidence or more details are provided. I would never ever set foot in KSA due to my own principles, so I have no interest in defending them, but strong accusations require strong evidence.