Saudi Arabia
The Shape of a Client Feudalism
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Simons describes the current human-rights situation in Saudi Arabia with reference to corruption, the treatment of dissidents, the penal system, the suppression of women, slavery and other aspects. A detailed history, from pre-Islamic times to the present, is provided, with attention to the influence of Mohammed, the Saudi ascendancy, the role of the West, the discovery of oil and the wars in the region. Finally attention is given to the various (economic/political/religious) problems that today face the Saudi regime and to the Saudi response.
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Geoff Simons
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'...excoriating account of the corrpution of the House of Saud, and the West's complicity in its fortunes. Few authors have catalogued the vicissitudes of Arabian politics so sharply and in such detail. Dozens of maps, tables, chronologies and cross-references make this book a wonderful resource, as well as a riveting read...timely and compelling...outstanding analysis.' - Lawrence Joffe, The Independent
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