Citizen of the Global Village depicts the true tale of a young man from a remote town in Saudi Arabia who spends his college years attending the University of Califonia at Humbolt. The story of where he came from in Saudi Arabia to settling into his new town in California is told with humor, innocense, and readers will delight in in his honesty. The friends he meets along the way, including the elderly couple who take him in like a son, his fellow teammates on his soccer team, and even the police officer who arrests him for drunk driving and whom Hamad thanks for giving him a safe place to stay for the evening, are all characters who play an active role in shaping this man"s life.