“All across Saudi Arabia, I’d seen countless projects being built, from simple museums to high-end resorts… But I’d begun to see the building projects as something else, too: the striving of a country — long shrouded to most Westerners — to be seen, reconsidered, accepted. And with its doors suddenly flung open and the pandemic behind us, visitors like me were finally beginning to witness this new Saudi Arabia.” Stephen Hiltner, Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia [New York Times]