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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 Mackey's extraordinary travels and experiences and depicting Saudi Arabia's 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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Saudis
• Author: Sandra Mackay
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466
• EAN: 9780393324174
• ISBN: 0393324176
• ID: 04067615
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 530 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 140 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. January 2003

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