May 22, 2005

Custodians of morality must reckon with cellphones

quadro.jpg The battle for the soul of Arab youth is waged all over the Middle East, with many contrasts. In cosmopolitan Beirut, the sexes mingle freely. In Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states they can't even meet, reports the The Associated Press.

"Yet even the fiercest custodians of morality haven't reckoned with cellphones. Nowadays a boy and girl can stand in a busy Saudi mall, behaving like complete strangers while text-messaging intimacies to each other".

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