There were no blacks to speak of. ONCE IN A WHILE, there would be some African blood that snuck in but it was very rare. If I saw two black Saudis in FIVE long years that would be a lot. I can only remember one. And we could see the skin on their hands so color was obvious.
The Saudis are brown to white-white, lots of mixtures of middle eastern browns to white-white. No black.
Hollywood is fantasy. I learned JUST how fantasy there were when I saw WITH MY OWN EYES, what lies I learned from good ole Hollywood.
I kept waiting for Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Shariff to come by on camels....no such luck. They all drove Fords, especially pick-ups. We saw them load their sheep and goats on the back and drive away.
By the way, their sheep have these HUGE triangle shaped tails. WEIRDEST thing I ever saw.
Also, all the camels they use are females. The male camels are too unpredictable, noisy, mean and nasty.
Hubby and I went down to the Red Sea port of Yanbu and also saw the camel races. But, that's another story!
Do you eat CloudBerries?
“By the way, their sheep have these HUGE triangle shaped tails. WEIRDEST thing I ever saw.”
Fat tail sheep, I think. They use that to keep the kebab thing from drying out by placing it at the top so the mutton suet is continually melting over the spiced meat. I have heard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_sheep though the pictures don’t look like other pictures I’ve seen, which matched what you’ve described.