Driving the Saudis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Driving the Saudis write by Jayne Amelia Larson. This book was released on 2012-10-16. Driving the Saudis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true-to-life account of a female chauffeur hired to drive the Saudi royal family in Los Angeles. After more than a decade of working in Hollywood, actress Jayne Amelia Larson found herself out of luck, out of work, and out of prospects. When she got hired to drive for the Saudi royal family vacationing in Beverly Hills, Larson thought she’d been handed the golden ticket. She’d heard stories of the Saudis bestowing $20,000 tips and Rolex watches on their drivers, but when the family arrived at LAX with twenty million dollars in cash, Larson realized that she might be in for the ride of her life. With awestruck humor and deep compassion, Larson shares the incredible insights she gained as the lone female in a detail of more than forty chauffeurs assigned to drive a beautiful Saudi princess, her family, and their extensive entourage. At its heart, this is an upstairs-downstairs, true-to-life fable for our global times; a story about the corruption that nearly infinite wealth causes, and about what we all do for money. Equal parts funny, surprising, and insightful, Driving the Saudis provides both entertainment and sharp social commentary on one of the world’s most secretive families.
Daring to Drive
Daring to Drive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daring to Drive write by Manal Sharif. This book was released on 2017-06-13. Daring to Drive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.
Driving the Saudis
Driving the Saudis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Driving the Saudis write by Jayne Amelia Larson. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Driving the Saudis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Actress, producer, and occasional chauffeur Jayne Amelia Larson offers a funny and insightful memoir about the time she spent as a driver for members of the Saudi royal family visiting Beverly Hills, detailing her invitation inside one of the world's most closely guarded monarchies.
Inside the Kingdom
Inside the Kingdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside the Kingdom write by Robert Lacey. This book was released on 2009-10-15. Inside the Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Son King
The Son King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Son King write by Madawi Al-Rasheed. This book was released on 2021-02-01. The Son King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have proven divisive, and his adoption of populist nationalism and fierce repression of diverse critical voices--religious scholars, feminists and dissident youth--have failed to silence a vibrant and well-connected Saudi society. Madawi Al-Rasheed lays bare the world of repression behind the crown prince's reforms. She dissects the Saudi regime's propaganda and progressive new image, while also dismissing Orientalist views that despotism is the only pathway to stable governance in the Middle East. Charting old and new challenges to the fragile Saudi nation from the kingdom's very inception, this blistering book exposes the dangerous contradictions at the heart of the Son King's Saudi Arabia.
