«As a form of public entertainment, wrestling emerged from the earlier traditions of the music hall and circus ring,» explains the author. (creativeboom.com)
Tadros suspects the poem, which was probably recited as public entertainment in villages, was a public - relations effort to combat a high suicide rate. (discovermagazine.com)
Movie theaters were banned in the early 1980s under pressure from Islamists as Saudi society turned towards a restrictive form of the religion that discouraged public entertainment and many forms of mixing between men and women. (fortune.com)