Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (Middle East History and Travel)

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Author: Koelbl, Susanne
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Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (Middle East History and Travel)

Witness the Mysterious World of Saudi Arabia"A fascinating account of the significant changes underway in Saudi Arabia based on years of excellent reporting on the ground in the Kingdom." -Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Institution Intelligence Project and author of Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR#1 New Release in Saudi Arabia History Take a deep dive behind the veils and walls of one of the world's most secretive countries. Learn how religious conservatism and strict laws governing women's freedoms over the past forty years support a single goal-preserving the power of the House of Saud.Few have first-hand knowledge of Saudi Arabia. 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.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 ambivalent about their newly offered freedoms.Get to know journalist Jamal Khashoggi, murdered and brutally dismembered in 2018.View an in-depth portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), contrasting liberalization of Saudi society with punitive treatment of dissenters.Open the black box that is Saudi Arabia. Become an eyewitness to the country's inner workings. Learn about the not-so-obvious facts of its history, politics, and customs. Understand the intricate and often hidden power relations within the kingdom.If you have read books such as Karen Elliott House's On Saudi Arabia or Robert Lacey's Inside the Kingdom, this book should be your next read. von Koelbl, Susanne

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Koelbl, Susanne

Susanne Koelbl is an award-winning journalist and a military and foreign correspondent for the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Her stories highlight the intricate dynamics in conflict areas and wars around the world, including the Balkans, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Koelbl is known for her probing reports from Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. Her highly acclaimed book Dark Beloved Country: People and Power in Afghanistan. was published in 2009.Always close to the people, Koelbl uses their voices to make complicated political and societal contexts accessible. For her in-depth and thorough reporting she received several industry recognitions, including the Liberty Award and the Henry-Nannen-Price award. In her exceptional interviews with state leaders, intelligence-chiefs and Islamic extremists, Koelbl repeatedly challenges the powerful, including the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (wanted for genocide with an international arrest warrant), or the underground Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. Koelbl has excellent contacts in all political camps in the Middle East.Koelbl is a fellow of the Bertelsmann Foundation's German-Israeli Young Leaders Program, a Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and was named a Media Ambassador with the German-Chinese Exchange Program of the Bosch Foundation at Tsingua University in Beijing. As a Knight Wallace Fellow, Koelbl gave guest lectures in 2012 on the war in Syria and the forty-year Afghanistan crisis. As a Knight Wallace alumni Koelbl is connected and tied into top influential media outlets in the US.The author has been travelling to Saudi Arabia since 2011. Most recently she lived in Riyadh during 2018-2019. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany.