Cover of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis

Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis

Saudi Arabia: land of oil, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and a crucial American ally. John R. Bradley uniquely exposes the turmoil that is shaking the House of Saud to its foundations, including the problems within the new leadership. From the heart of the secretive Islamic kingdom's urban centers to its most remote mountainous terrain, he provides intimate details and reveals regional, religious, and tribal rivalries.

Read more

Bradley highlights tensions generated by social change, the increasing restlessness of Saudi youth with limited cultural and political outlets, and the predicament of Saudi women seeking opportunities but facing constraints.

What are the implications for the Sauds and the West? This book offers a startling look at the present predicament and a troubling view of the future.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia Shares Saudi Arabia, Middle East, nonfiction
  2. America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier Shares Saudi Arabia, Middle East, nonfiction
  3. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century Shares Middle East, Saudi Arabia, nonfiction
  4. The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East Shares Middle East, Saudi Arabia, nonfiction

“People who read Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The Arab Uprising: The Wave of Protest that Toppled the Status Quo and the Struggle for a New Middle East
  2. Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  3. The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia
  4. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War

“If you want more of the same (politics about islam), start with these.”

  1. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection
  2. Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
  3. Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
  4. Engaging the Muslim World

“If it was the Saudi Arabia that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Burning Veil
  2. At the Drop of a Veil
  3. Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  4. City of Veils

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Understanding Somalia And Somaliland: Culture, History And Society
  2. Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement
  3. The Leadership of Muhammad
  4. Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World