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While the world is waiting for answers about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, we asked our international correspondent David Kirkpatrick, author of the book "Between the hands of soldiers: freedom and chaos in Egypt and the Middle East," to suggest three books to help us understand relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States with this country. Here are his recommendations.
THE KINGDOM
Arabia and Sa'ud's house
By Robert Lacey
630 pp. Hutchinson. (nineteen eighty one)
Kirkpatrick calls this book a "legible story" of how Saudi Arabia was formed in the early 1900s by a man named Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Faisal as-Saud (often referred to as West Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud). who regained power over the region after his family lost him in the 1700s. Lacey, a friend of Khashoggi's, the missing journalist, tells how Abd al-Aziz has built a kingdom "with a sword". steel and a "flesh sword", taking advantage of his right to have four women It's time to marry about 300 women and dozens of fathers. "He used marriage as a diplomatic instrument, placing his own bed at the center of efforts to bind the territories he conquered," wrote our critic.
KINGS AND PRESIDENTS
Saudi Arabia and the United States since the RAD
By Bruce Riedel
272 pages. Brookings Institution Press. (2017)
Riedel, a former CIA member, "is an excellent expert on Saudi Arabia and a harsh critic of his current leaders," said Kirkpatrick, describing the book as "excellent". This insider account relies on declassified documents and eyewitness accounts between the United States and Saudi Arabia, an issue that has been pressing since the beginning, as recent events show.
THE LEGACY OF SALMAN
The dilemmas of a new era in Saudi Arabia
By Madawi Al-Rasheed
320 pages. Oxford University Press. (2018)
The publisher of this recent title is "an important Saudi intellectual in exile, "said Kirkpatrick. In this book, she brings together historians and social scientists specialists from Saudi Arabia to reflect on the country under the reign of King Salman, who came to power in 2015. It contains essays on religion, feminism and Moreover.
