THE AL-BATIN DIARIES

About the Book

The Al-Batin Diaries are the intimate record of a year spent by William Bryant in a remote military base in Saudi Arabia where he was assigned to produce basic medical texts for Saudi students. King Khaled Military City is a world without women populated by young Third World construction workers whose lives and desperate sexual practices are described in detail, along with those of Saudis and other Arabs. The journals are full of notes for the comic erotic novel that Bryant is writing at the same time, the text of which is included in the second part of the book.

About the Author

William Bryant has lived and worked in the Middle East since before the Gulf War, in assignments with Saudi Medical Services, the Saudi navy and in the oil industry. He has written biographies of Roger Casement and Alfred Russel Wallace and Ross, a novel, parts of which appeared in Evergreen Review.