This paper is a part of the analysis of my thesis research. It aims to describe and understand the way that some people look at forced and early marriage in Saudi Arabia. This paper tries to address this issue through discourse analysis of a specific text. The paper describes how the text was constructed, what the main claims were and what ways were used to support the claims.

This paper focuses on forced marriage, early marriage, child marriage and arranged marriage. These kinds of marriages maybe looked as child abuse and violence against women at the same time. Anitha and Gill (2009) and Gill, and Anitha (2009) state that critical focus on those sorts of marriages has not take a place until quite recently. Kelly et al. (2005) claim that the violence has changed too, with more and different types around the world.

Collecting data is one of the most important and difficult steps that researchers face. In this paper I am going to describe and discuss some issues and difficulties which I have went through last year while my research data were conducting in Saudi Arabia. First, I will start with the time question of timing. After that how the participants’ selection was made and issues in arranging the interviews. Then particular challenges and what was done to go beyond them.