Oxford Seminars Blog » Abaya https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca Grads since 1992 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:31:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.5 Living & Teaching ESL in Saudi Arabia as a Foreign Woman https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/living-teaching-esl-in-saudi-arabia-as-a-foreign-woman/ https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/living-teaching-esl-in-saudi-arabia-as-a-foreign-woman/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2017 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.oxfordseminars.com/blog?p=3818&preview=true&preview_id=3818 As a woman, when I tell people about my experiences teaching ESL in Saudi Arabia, the question they always ask is “Did you have to cover your face?” They are surprised when I tell them that I didn’t have to cover my hair, let alone my face, though sometimes I chose to cover both. Wearing […]

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]]> https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/living-teaching-esl-in-saudi-arabia-as-a-foreign-woman/feed/ 1 The Abaya: Women traveling in Oman https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/the-abaya-women-traveling-in-oman/ https://blog.oxfordseminars.ca/the-abaya-women-traveling-in-oman/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:45:01 +0000 http://www.oxfordseminars.com/blog/?p=1648 As a foreign woman traveling in Oman, and one who did not cover her hair, I was constantly stared at by men. They weren’t threatening stares, I soon realized, but curious ones, which at least in part spoke of the locals’ curiosity about me (and about my many colleagues both female and male) as newcomers […]

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