One of the changes I had to get used to when I started living in Saudi Arabia was the different weekend. Here, if you’re lucky enough enough to have a two day weekend, you will have Thursday and Friday off work. The Sunday working was something even after many, many years I still felt cheated to have to get up and go into school for an 8 o’clock start! Sunday’s should be for lazy, leisurely mornings:).
Most of the other Arab countries have Friday and Saturday as their weekend and find this more beneficial for doing business with the west. For many years now there has been talk of Saudi changing and in April this raised its head again when Oman announced it would be changing its weekend in line with the other Gulf countries. Being out of line with not only the west but with the other gulf countries…
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