Toby Craig Jones, Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia

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7 juin 2024

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Khelil Bouarrouj, « Toby Craig Jones, Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia », Arabian Humanities, ID : 10.4000/cy.1954

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It has become an axiom in Western reports on Saudi Arabia to portray the reigning Al Saud family as enforcing eastern despotism on the home front yet, when it comes to their own personal habits, yearning for all the efficacy (mostly Western) modernity has to offer. In his lucid (and highly recommended) account on the contemporary history of Saudi Arabia, Toby Jones problematizes this dichotomy: rather than hoarding a monopoly on modernity, the ruling family preached its gospel as a measure o...

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