2025-01-27
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Saudi Arabia's entertainment industry is booming, yet the Kingdom still tightly controls free speech.
I'm Emily Wither in the city of Jeddah and I've been hearing from Saudis about how they're navigating a cultural revolution inside the kingdom.
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I do remember sitting on my back deck with my head in my knees, just going, what the hell is happening?
Like, why is my house full of all these people?
Why has my phone been taken off me?
Is this real?
Like, am I dreaming?
Like you just want to bang your head and go, wake up on this freaking nightmare.
That's.
What is this?
This cannot be real.
And my brother comes up to me and he's like, hey, El.
Chloe and Laura and Mum, they can't.
They're talking about this sperm retrieval process.
And immediately I just looked at him and said, yeah.
Yes.
Yep, yep.