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Fatma Tanis

Saudi Arabia is razing whole neighborhoods to make way for tourism and wealth

A demolished section of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 19. (Fatma Tanis/NPR)

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — In an old, crumbling neighborhood in this port city, an older woman is waiting under the sun for a ride. Her face is covered in a niqab, except for her eyes and nose.

"Life is good, everything is good," she tells NPR. "But the demolition has brought us pain." She declined to give her name out of fear of the government.

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