"At home in two worlds, Mai Yamani, daughter of former Saudi oil minister Ahmad Zaki Yamani, divides her time between Oxford University, where she works on her doctorate in anthropology, and her homeland, where she both studies and practices traditional Arab customs such as decorating her hands with henna. Given a choice, she would rather stroll with her daughter through old Jiddah, where windows are latticed to shield the women from view, than the streets of London. 'I'm a Saudi woman,' she says. 'I like my veil.'"
—From "Women of Saudi Arabia," October 1987, National Geographic magazine
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