I can tell you this: in meeting with ex pats, mostly Brits, their strong advice was that women must not travel alone ANYWHERE in the middle east, outside of westernized commercial areas, regardless of what nation you were in. That was the nail in the coffin for my potential employment at Aramco - my wife would have been a prisoner in the compound. Yes, in Saudi, but she could hardly live in a mall in Bahrain, could she?

Females in the middle east, indeed in the Muslim world, are considered pieces of meat if the are dressed "immodestly" or are not with a male companion. Being groped is simply par for the course.

You think otherwise. bully for you.