If you checked into a hotel room and found a mosquito repellent, then be rest assured you are in Jeddah. The destruction of the sea, the land and the environment is part of this city’s tourist activities. Meeting various species of mosquitoes and talking about new epidemics are normal in Jeddah.

If you found the district municipality doing nothing and acting like a guiding station in which employees say that “everything is in the hands of the municipality,” then be rest assured you are in Jeddah because the municipality has no hands, even though the city is home to a massive hand monument.

If you found the price of land more expensive than in other cities because of bureaucracy, which is given the fancy name of “development,” then know you are in Jeddah.

If you came to know that historical sites were not open to visitors and that people know nothing about them unless they are hit by fires, then be rest assured you are in Jeddah.

If you found libraries containing archives and documents being hit by fires with smoke concealing the flames of truth and reality, then know you are in Jeddah. If you found a city in constant need of the Civil Defense, then know you are in Jeddah.

If you discovered that the congested road in which you stopped for two hours or more is leading to nowhere, then be rest assured you are in Jeddah.

If you found a company asphalting a street while another one was simultaneously digging it, then know you are in Jeddah. If you fond a city dumping all of its rubbish and sewage into the sea, then also know you are in Jeddah.