Saudi schoolgirls with backpacks walking through the historic district of Al-Balad after class. (Source: Shutterstock)
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Saudi Arabia, 1970s 🇸🇦 pic.twitter.com/Htt5UCrsSs
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me back to my school days in Jeddah. The classrooms looked just like this—modest, yet alive with curiosity. Behind the blackboard and microscopes, however, lay a system still in its infancy. In 1970, there were fewer than 1,200 schools across the Kingdom; by the end of the decade, the number had more than…
