My Desert 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 My Desert Kingdom write by Jill Koolmees. This book was released on 2004. My Desert Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Saudi Arabia is a place with a climate from hell, a country where public beheadings are commonplace, where outsiders are unwelcome. Yet somehow its very inaccessibility has fascinated generations of travellers. Wherever we are told we cannot go, our imaginations run wild.' When Jill Koolmees follows her husband to Saudi Arabia, she is in for a journey that challenges her beliefs, her marriage, even her sanity. Share her voyage of discovery through desert oasis, souk and shopping mall, and meet a cast of characters that includes housemaids and pilgrims, fanatics and princes. Above all, there are the women of Arabia. From her first tentative attempts at contact to letting go at an all-woman disco, Koolmees gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the veil. 'Tell them about us,' urge her new friends, and in this recounting of the joys and challenges of their lives, she fulfils her promise. A uniquely personal and timely portrait of a region under the international spotlight, MY DESERT KINGDOM offers a rare insight into a hidden world.
Desert Kingdom
Desert 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 Desert Kingdom write by Toby Craig Jones. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Desert Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil’s abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom’s ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth century, it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged. The central government’s power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolution. Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam, tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert.
The Saudis
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 The Saudis write by Sandra Mackey. This book was released on 2002. The Saudis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this updated insider's look at Saudi Arabia, 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. 2 maps.
Ibn Saud
Ibn Saud - 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 Ibn Saud write by Barbara Bray. This book was released on 2012-06-15. Ibn Saud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham. Equipped with immense physical courage, he fought and won, often with weapons and tactics not unlike those employed by the ancient Assyrians, a series of astonishing military victories over a succession of enemies much more powerful than himself. Over the same period, he transformed himself from a minor sheikh into a revered king and elder statesman, courted by world leaders such as Churchill and Roosevelt. A passionate lover of women, Ibn Saud took many wives, had numerous concubines, and fathered almost one hundred children. Yet he remained an unswerving and devout Muslim, described by one who knew him well at the time of his death in 1953 as “probably the greatest Arab since the Prophet Muhammad.” Saudi Arabia, the country Ibn Saud created, is a staunch ally of the West, but it is also the birthplace of Osama bin Laden and fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. Saud’s kingdom, as it now stands, has survived the vicissitudes of time and become an invaluable player on the world’s political stage.
A Desert Kingdom
A Desert 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 A Desert Kingdom write by Naveen Patnaik. This book was released on 1990. A Desert Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Naveen Patnaik's fascinating text brings fresh meaning to this incredible visual record of a lost and exotic world. A Desert Kingdom is essential reading for anybody interested in the colorful life of the great subcontinent and a unique, evocative reminder of its past.
