The Council supports freedom of expressionand the idea that the public should be educated about the world in which they live through independent media.
Of course, just the idea that three people - a man and two women - unrelated could have a public conversation about freedom of expression, attitudes towards women, sexuality and other taboos in the rigid social climate of Saudi Arabia would be otherwise unthinkable.
The idea that works of literature hold personal clues, or that more grandly writing is an expressionand exploration of the self, is a relatively recent phenomenon.