item number: 202259 title: 12669107 item name: 12669107.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: FO/FOOD CRISIS - SAUDI ARABIA DATE: Downloaded 6/7/2008, MMM. CREDIT: Faiza Saleh Ambah / TWP Jiddah, Saudi Arabia . Leah Escorpizo used to food price increases in the Phillipines. But in the 9 years Leah Escorpizolived in Saudi Arabia Leah Escorpizonever noticed such a price spike. We never experienced anything like this before. It was a sudden increase. The prices of basic commodities have gone way up, a tray of 30 eggs went up from 12 riyals ($3.2) to more than 16 riyals (4.3). by: Faiza Saleh Ambah (The Washington Post) sets

item number: 199752 title: 12060096 item name: 12060096.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: Saudi Arabia-Womens Basketball Team INPUTDATE: 2008-04-13 16:09:13.457 CREDIT: Faiza Ambah/STAFF/TWP Jiddah, , Saudi Arabia Special Education teacher Marwa Ashrour, practicing at the Jiddah United Women's basketball court recently for an upcoming tournament. Saudi women have recently taken up basketball but are not allowed to represent their country abroad. Sent by: Faiza Ambah Photo Editor: by: Faiza Ambah (TWP) sets Collections: - Faiza Ambah

item number: 198776 title: 11722344 item name: 11722344.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: Saudi-Former Militant INPUTDATE: 2008-03-14 09:40:04.210 CREDIT: Faiza Ambah/STAFF/TWP Jiddah, , Saudi Arabia Khalid al-Hubyshi, a 32-year old former militant who once interviewed for a job with Osama bin Laden, now works as a controller at a utilities company. Sent by: Faiza Ambah Photo Editor: by: Faiza Ambah (TWP) sets Collections: - Faiza Ambah

item number: 198032 title: 11626634 item name: 11626634.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: Saudi-Hip Hop Competition INPUTDATE: 2008-03-06 08:37:12.970 CREDIT: Faiza Ambah/STAFF/TWP Jiddah, , Saudi Arabia Saudi hip-hop group Dark2Men outside the MTV Arabia studios in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, the day before a finale competition. From left to right, Tamer Farhan, who raps in English, Maan Mansour, English and Arabic-language vocalist, and Tamer Farhan, Arabic-language rapper. Sent by: Faiza Ambah Photo Editor: by: Faiza Ambah (TWP) sets Collections: - Faiza Ambah

item number: 196721 title: 11187646 item name: 11187646.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: Saudi-Women Driving INPUTDATE: 2008-01-30 14:01:33.037 CREDIT: Faiza Ambah/STAFF/TWP Jiddah, , Saudi Arabia Haifa Osra, on the left, a women's rights campaigner, tries to convince a group of women sitting in a coffeeshop to sign a petition to the king requesting a lift on the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, the only country women are not allowed to drive. Sent by: Faiza Ambah Photo Editor: by: Faiza Ambah (TWP) sets Collections: - Faiza Ambah

item number: 190883 title: 9767182 item name: 9767182.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: Saudi-Graffiti INPUTDATE: 2007-09-08 07:42:54.027 CREDIT: Faiza Ambah/STAFF/TWP Jiddah, , Saudi Arabia Abdullah Alwani paints flourescent graffiti on a black wall at the Star Billiards pool hall with a friend. Alwani, 20, formerly notorious for spray-painting his nickname, X 5, all over the city's walls, now paints graffiti for profit. Sent by: Faiza Ambah Photo Editor: by: Faiza Ambah (TWP) sets Collections: - Faiza Ambah

item number: 190882 title: 9836040 item name: 9836040.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: Saudi-Graffiti INPUTDATE: 2007-09-15 09:36:48.113 CREDIT: Faiza Ambah/STAFF/TWP Jiddah, , Saudi Arabia Abdullah al-Alwani, a 20-year old college dropout and graffiti artist, in front of one of his last drawings before he accepted a municipality amnesty and promised to stop spray-painting his chosen nickname, X 5, on public property. Sent by: Faiza Ambah Photo Editor: by: Faiza Ambah (TWP) sets Collections: - Faiza Ambah

item number: 167917 title: 5205218 item name: 5205218.jpg Jiddah, Saudi Arabia SLUG: FO/Saudi-Women DATE: Downloaded email 05/24/2006 (EEL) CREDIT: Faiza Saleh Ambah/TWP Dr. Faten Khorshid, a cancer researcher, works at the lab at the King Fahd Medical Research Center in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Khorshid is a religious conservative who does not want Western-style female emancipation in Saudi Arabia. by: Faiza Saleh Ambah (TWP) sets