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Kingdom Without Borders is the first book to explore the driving forces behind Saudi Arabias new era of expansionism Having established a farreaching political and religious influence as well as an impressive media empire Saudi Arabia has become a kingdom without borders holding both local and international actors in a tight embrace This phenomenon has yet to be seriouslyinstead of sensationallystudied In this volume contributors soberly reassess the changing nature of state and society considering not only the multiple leaders who have risen within Saudi Arabia in recent years but also thanks to a second oil boom the consolidation of outside forces that now threaten to subvert the state Bringing together leading scholars from Europe the United States the Middle East and Asia Kingdom Without Borders combines both a topdown and grassroots approach to examining the countrys growing regional and international influence Contributors also trace the impact of Saudi Arabia on the religion economics and politics of Yemen Lebanon and the United States linking the transformation of local contexts to the external actors of globalization With a thorough investigation of the history and contemporary manifestations of Saudi expansionism Kingdom Without Borders presents a unique opportunity to view Saudi Arabias power project within the interrelated realms of local politics religion and media genres
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Documenting the recent studies conducted on a highly original beautiful and longneglected site by excavation teams this exploration reveals the hidden treasures of a neareastern civilization More than 350 art masterpieces mostly unknown to a foreign public and dating from prehistoric times to modern days introduce the life and culture of a land of exchanges located at the crossroad of major civilizationsincluding the Mediterraneans Mesopotamians and Indianswhich today constitutes Saudi Arabia The numerous testimonies include the necropolis of Hegra a smaller version of Petra inscribed on the UNESCO World heritage list Mecqua the fortress of Teima which shows strong Mesopotamian and Egyptian influence and the Dedan site which is characterized by monumental sculpture of Ptolemaic inspiration Precious dishes and jewelry monumental sculptures temples and palaces ornate with frescoes fill the pages of this sumptuous examination
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In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Ladens attacks on Wahhabism Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of Saudi Arabia as an unorthodox innovation that manipulated a suggestible people to gain political influence David Commins book questions this assumption He examines the debate on the nature of Wahhabism and offers original findings on its ascendance in Saudi Arabia and spread throughout other parts of the Muslim world such as Afghanistan and Pakistan He also assesses the challenge that radical militants within Saudi Arabia pose to the region and draws conclusions which will concern all those who follow events in the Kingdom The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia is essential reading for anyone interested in the Middle East and Islamic radicalism today
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Documenting the recent studies conducted on a highly original beautiful and longneglected site by excavation teams this exploration reveals the hidden treasures of a neareastern civilization More than 350 art masterpieces mostly unknown to a foreign public and dating from prehistoric times to modern days introduce the life and culture of a land of exchanges located at the crossroad of major civilizationsincluding the Mediterraneans Mesopotamians and Indianswhich today constitutes Saudi Arabia The numerous testimonies include the necropolis of Hegra a smaller version of Petra inscribed on the UNESCO World heritage list Mecqua the fortress of Teima which shows strong Mesopotamian and Egyptian influence and the Dedan site which is characterized by monumental sculpture of Ptolemaic inspiration Precious dishes and jewelry monumental sculptures temples and palaces ornate with frescoes fill the pages of this sumptuous examination
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Its all hereIslam the family tree a sea of oil and money to match palace intrigueThis is high drama and an epic tale Tom Brokaw Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 911 hijackers In this immensely important book journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity Moving from the bloody seizure of Meccas Grand Mosque in 1979 through the Persian Gulf War to the delicate USSaudi relations in a post 911 world Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself
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A rare firsthand glimpse into the hidden realm of Saudi social and public lifeThe New York Times Sandra Mackey lived in Saudi Arabia for four years and as far as the authorities knew she was simply the wife of an American doctor But she saw things and traveled to places rarely viewed by any outsider let alone a Western woman and she succeeded in smuggling out a series of crucial articles on Saudi culture and politics The Saudis offers a fascinating portrait of Saudi life chronicling Mackeys extraordinary travels and experiences and depicting Saudi Arabias strange metamorphosis from backward desert kingdom to world power Mackey reveals the chaos of a country in transformation grappling with modernity coming to terms with its own wealth and battling to maintain an influential stance in an altogether new world This updated edition provides the essential background to the new Saudi crisis as the mother state of international terrorism
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The ultimate biography of the warriorpolitician who founded Saudi Arabia in 1932 and created one of the worlds most powerful nationsIbn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham Equipped with immense physical courage he fought and won often with weapons and tactics not unlike those employed by the ancient Assyrians a series of astonishing military victories over a succession of enemies much more powerful than himself Over the same period he transformed himself from a minor sheikh into a revered king and elder statesman courted by world leaders such as Churchill and Roosevelt A passionate lover of women Ibn Saud took many wives had numerous concubines and fathered almost one hundred children Yet he remained an unswerving and devout Muslim described by one who knew him well at the time of his death in 1953 as probably the greatest Arab since the Prophet Muhammad Saudi Arabia the country Ibn Saud created is a staunch ally of the West but it is also the birthplace of Osama bin Laden and fifteen of the nineteen 911 hijackers Sauds kingdom as it now stands has survived the vicissitudes of time and become an invaluable player on the worlds political stage 24 black amp white photographs
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Oil and water and the science and technology used to harness them have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia Oils abundance and the fantastic wealth it generated has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdoms ruling family The other bedrock element was water whose importance was measured by its dearth Over much of the twentieth century it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emergedThe central governments power over water space and people expanded steadily over time enabled by increasing oil revenues The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil science and expertise And where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oilrich Eastern Province where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolutionSaudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam tribe and the economics of oil Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert
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Now newly updated Americas Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United Statess special relationship with Saudi Arabia also known as the deal oil for security Exploding the longestablished myth that the Arabian American Oil Company Aramco made miracles happen in the desert Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom and how oil and Aramco quickly became Americas largest single overseas private enterprise From the establishment in the 1930s of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps to the consolidation of Americas Kingdom under the House of Fahd the royal faction that still rules today this is a meticulously researched account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order
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