Even the western way of modernity could not emancipate them from gender exploitation that is why the four girls go through extreme gender torture and deception from males. The text presents the women characters who are fascinated toward western cultural values and try to adapt the western way of modernity in their traditionally and culturally gender biased Saudi Arabia. The research aims to denote how the modernity suppresses women in Rajaa Alsanea’s Girls of Riyadh. Malena Watrous, San Francisco Chronicle Rajaa Alsanea's Saudi take on Sex and the City is an irresistible, and thought-provoking, confection. Still, in its own way, Girls of Riyadh is a feminist book, as it reveals women making choices and dealing with the often severe consequences. True to form, Alsanea leads each girl to her own version of a happy ending. This article reads Banāt al-Riyāḍ as an 'Islamic feminist' text that represents the extent to which al-Ṣāniʿ has internalized the other-modern western culture and civilization-while at the same time seeking to externalize and highlight the authentic Islamic teachings on women's rights and gender relations, which have always been both misinterpreted locally and misrepresented globally. Most of the reviews and scholarly studies in English have focused more on the novel's innovative narrative style or medium and its portrayal of the taboos of Saudi Arabia rather than on-and oftentimes, ignoring-its Islamic content and persuasion. The novel explores issues related to Islamic religious precepts versus Saudi socio-cultural practices and ideologies, especially those related to love and marital relationships as well as the concepts of femininity and masculinity.

Rajā Abstract: Rajāʾ al-Ṣāniʿ's Banāt al-Riyāḍ (2005, Girls of Riyadh) is unique not just for depicting globalization and local culture vis-à-vis the woman issue in Saudi Arabia, but for heralding a new trend of 'e-epistolary narratives' in the Saudi Arabian novel.

Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea