Feasts of burden — Costly dinner parties serve food for thought

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*Living with Saudis is gratifying. There are dinner invitations for every occasion. If someone buys a car, graduates, gets a job, marries, has a child, is discharged from hospital, gets released from prison or moves into a new home, expect a dinner invite. Such is the situation that if you die, friends and relatives will be fed for three days.

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