Hisham was enjoying the mild winter weather on a recent walk through Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter when he was suddenly stopped by the police.
“Why are you wearing this?” they asked, pointing to his T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Palestine” in six different fonts. “This is a political gesture?.?.?. We’re pro-Palestine, but you don’t do this,” the officers warned.
“I had to calm them down by saying ‘OK, I’m leaving, no worries, I’m not going to wear it,’” said Hisham, a government employee. “I thought: ‘this is not the place for such T-shirts.’”
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