Saudi Arabia EXPO 2008

Beyond EXPO Video

Saudi Arabia had the first film festval inside the country. compared to the ones in western countries, it is still incomplete with people drinnking coffee and juice instead of champagne, women going through seperated entrance and than isloated from the other visitors, and shwoing only privately filmed 3-56 minutes films but this is a great improvenmt compared to few years ago when all cinemas were closed down. inside the country, there are no movie theaters and people are forced to watch movies privately either by satilite tvs or by DVDs which all scenes like kisses have been cut out. there has been critisizm by several members of he government who wrote on news paper that movies can affet the culture negatively by showing alchohol, and men and women together, which is prohibited by law inside the country. because of the law and regulations, most movies were privately shot and ranging from 3 to 56 minutes in total.

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US officials said that the Saudi government refused to raise roduction rates after their talks between president Bush and king Abdullah. The saudi government calims that it already meets demands and that it raised producation by 300000 barrels per day ealrier this month. oil prices are currently on the rise and it is currently $127 a barrel. US hoped to curb record prices by increasing productions of oil but Saudi Arabia refused, claiming that supply shortage is not the blame for raising price.

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Expo Plan Art

This is the Plan for expo made in art. if there is anything that needs to be changed, please leave comment.

This is the outline for the beyond expo video. It is complete except for who is bringing which prop, which we will discuss.
Outline for Beyond Expo

Two members of the Saudi religious police are questioned when a man and women die from a car crash. there has been information on how the two police were chasing them when the car crashed and burst to flames. The government claims that the two police were in a daily routine and dose not have anything to do with the accident. the religious police work in the country to inforce the religious law in the country and prevent mixing of gender.

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Saudis open a first women only hotel in the kingdom. This is a siginificant improvement from how women could not enter a hotel witout government permission until a few years ago. this hotel is owned by 20 saudi princesses and buseinesswomen and it has various facitilies like a conference room open to women at all times, the first ever in the kingdom.

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Do you want to learn about tourism in Saudi Arabia:Saudi Arabia Official Tourism Site

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