Behind the Kingdom's Veil (eBook)

Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Susanne Koelbl (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Mango Media (Verlag)
978-1-64250-345-6 (ISBN)

Infos

“A fascinating account of the significant changes underway in Saudi Arabia based on years of excellent reporting on the ground.” —Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Institution Intelligence Project, author of Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most secretive countries. Now, Susanne Koelbl, award-winning journalist for the German news magazine Der Spiegel, unveils many secrets of this mysterious kingdom. For years she traveled the Middle East, and recently lived in Riyadh during the most dramatic changes since the country’s founding. She has cultivated relationships on every level of Saudi society and is equally at ease with ultra-conservative Wahhabi preachers, oppositionists, and women from all walks of life. In this “piercingly powerful book” (Ahmed Rahid, New York Times-bestselling author of Taliban), you can have breakfast with Royal Highnesses; meet Osama bin Laden’s bomb-making trainer; enter palaces of secret service chiefs; listen to intimate conversations with women about their newly offered freedoms; learn about journalist Jamal Khashoggi; and view an in-depth portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), as you learn about the not-so-obvious facts of the kingdom’s history, politics, customs, and hidden power relations.

Inhalt

Table of Contents

Prologue
Foreword

Welcome to the Salafists: How My Landlord Tries to Save Me from Satan
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: Time of the Bulldozer
Life under the Abaya: Black or Black?
Complex Family Affairs
Car Cowboys
The Men’s Running Group, or How Mr. Zayd Lost His Groove
Brief Escapes: The Malls
We’ll Get You: Death of a Dissident
In the North: With the Proud Shammar, Where Men Can Still Be Men
In the East: With the Shia, Where Oil and Trouble Can Be Found
Alcohol: How the Buzz Gets into the Bottle
The Crown Jewels: Oil, Power, Money
Bandar, the Black Prince: Saudi Arabia’s Secret Weapon
Seven Dates a Day Keep the Devil Away
The Royals: A Terrifyingly Nice Family
The Faustian Pact of Diriyah
The Magic Scent of Wood and Sweat
Qatar: My Brother, My Foe
The Magic of Batha
How Little Karim Tried to Solve the Yemen Crisis
Richard of Arabia: Making the Desert Bloom
Blue Gold
Forbidden Love among the Wahhabis
Brave Women
Osama bin Laden’s Bomb-Making Instructor Reveals All
Birthday with Evil Spirits
Marriage, a Straitjacket
Room for a Single Woman, Please
Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
Liberated Art
The Beauty of Al-Ahsa through the Eyes of Abdullah
The Revolution Comes Too Late for Pious Jamila

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Saudi History
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
​About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Vorwort: Karen Elliott House
• Zusatzinfo: b/w historical images
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Arab • DARE • Daring • Driving • History • Invisible Women • jihadist • karen elliott house • Khashoggi • manal sharif • MBS • Mohammed bin Salman • Oppression • Power • qanta ahmed • qanta ahmed land invisible women dare drive daring manal sharif driving saudi arabia karen elliott house mohammed bin salman history arab rogan tim smith saud Riyadh jihadist Khashoggi power Robert Lacey MBS Religious extremism Wahhabi oppression • religious extremism • riyadh • saud • Saudi Arabia • Wahhabi
• ISBN-10: 1-64250-345-2 / 1642503452
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64250-345-6 / 9781642503456