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          This thesis tries to analyze Rajaa Al-Sanea's novel entitled The Girls of....

          Alsanea, Rajaa 1981-

          PERSONAL:

          Born 1981, in Kuwait. Education: King Saud University, D.D.S., 2005.

          A tender yet biting glimpse into the love lives of four young women from Riyadh who met on university benches and are now embarking on the perilous path.

        1. A tender yet biting glimpse into the love lives of four young women from Riyadh who met on university benches and are now embarking on the perilous path.
        2. Rajaa Alsanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors.
        3. This thesis tries to analyze Rajaa Al-Sanea's novel entitled The Girls of.
        4. This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to explore gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea's novel Girls of Riyadh.
        5. Rajaa Alsanea (Arabic: رجاء الصانع‎; variant spelling Rajaa al-Sanea)is a Saudi writer who became famous through her novel Girls of Riyadh, or Banat al-Riyadh.

          6. Religion: Muslim.

          ADDRESSES:

          Home—Chicago, IL.

          CAREER:

          Dentist and writer.

          WRITINGS:

          Girls of Riyadh, translation by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth, Penguin Press (New York, NY), 2007.

          SIDELIGHTS:

          Rajaa Alsanea is the author of Girls of Riyadh. Hailed by many critics as a Saudi-style Sex and the City,Saudi Arabia.

          It is an environment where the religious police can arrest a couple for meeting at a cafe in broad daylight, women are not permitted to drive, and divorcees are social misfits.

          Alsanea was born in Kuwait, the youngest of six children, to liberal Saudi parents who raised their children on the belief that men and women are equal.

          When her father, an editor and journalist for the information ministry in Kuwait, died when she was eight, her family moved back to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a much more restrictive environment than the children had been accustome