Saudi Arabia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Culture Smart / Cultuur Bewust

by Nicolas Buchele

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include: * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken

Genres: Nonfiction, Middle East

168 pages, Paperback

First published June 3, 2008

Reviews

[Scott Parker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saudi Arabia-Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs Culture provides an interesting perspective of this nation and its people. Online virtual ESL/ESOL teachers will find this book particularly helpful.

[MRS SARAH WILLIAMS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

Excellent introduction to life in Saudi Arabia. Zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz zzz

[Nora · Rating 3 out of 5]

An excellent primer on Saudi Arabian history, religion and culture.

[Deborah Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and sweet. It seemed to have given me all the basic information and orientation needed for an upcoming trip.
I'm very happy to have discovered the Culture Smart series.

[Howard Church · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth it!

This was a great intro book that gives a newcomer a very good general understanding of what to expect when getting into the kingdom and being subject to Saudi culture.

[M Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good. better than just a tour guide- more about culture without going into arduous detail.

[Nancy Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick overview of the history and culture of Saudi Arabia told with a light-hearted wit.