Love on Girl’s Side of the Saudi Divide 
NY Times article. "In some families, he may have a supervised conversation with her. Ideally, many Saudis say, her showfa will be the only time in a girl's life that she is seen this way by a man outside her family. The separation between the sexes in Saudi Arabia is so extreme that it is difficult to overstate."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/middleeast/13girls.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
NY Times article. "In some families, he may have a supervised conversation with her. Ideally, many Saudis say, her showfa will be the only time in a girl's life that she is seen this way by a man outside her family. The separation between the sexes in Saudi Arabia is so extreme that it is difficult to overstate."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/middleeast/13girls.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
