Below is a link to an article in which Violet Dickson-one of the best known British women to Arabian Gulf societies in the early twentieth century- is interviewed. Mrs. Dickson (Umm Saud) talks about her experience in the region and mentions some of the topics we discussed in class: Zanzibar, Mecca, nomadic life in comparison to urban life style and modernization. Reading the article one realizes that she allowed herself to undergo an acculturation process through which she became an individual that was half way through her original British culture and the Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf culture. What I found most interesting in this article is that she didn’t talk about the local society from an orientalist point of view and instead in some of her answers she somehow implied that she considered herself a part of that society.
link: http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197206/a.talk.with.violet.dickson.htm
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