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.

BBC: Middle East

So the original meaning of the first amendment, for example, is not the common law rights of free speech or the press in 1791 in fact there was no agreed set of such rights at the time but an abstract statement of the right to freedom of expression to be interpreted and reinterpreted as circumstances and society's attitudes change.

ECONOMIST: The politics of justice