‘Rich Saudi’ are words that seem to belong together. But Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants highlight another, mainly hidden, reality.
In the online show Mal3ob3lena (Malob Aleyna or We are being cheated) an item entitled ‘Poverty in Saudi Arabia’ features several desperately poor people in one of the slums of Riyadh, five kilometres outside the city centre.
It’s a scene of crowded dilapidated dwellings, filthy alleys – full of uncollected garbage – and ragged children playing, some barefoot.
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