Musical tapes or CD's. Electrical appliances and other items. Many items such as portable radios, electric shavers, tape players, VCR's are easily available and very reasonably priced . Pictures of your loved ones. Calculator for computing exchange rates and metric measurements.
Travelers guide to Arabic.
The time difference from New York or Toronto to Taif is 7 hours in summer and 8 hours in winter. You can get a private mail box at the Community Center Do NOT bring video tapes, or you will be delayed in customs while they review them. Have these mailed to you at a later time.