"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue ... This 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 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important
Inside the kingdom: kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists and the struggle for saudi arabia
โ Scribed by Lacey, Robert
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2011;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 905 KB
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101140739
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โฆ Synopsis
"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This 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 9/11 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 Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11 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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