The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the Twenty-first Century

Edited by Joshua Craze and Mark Huband

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November, 2009
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15434-5
$50.00

"These articles provide much-needed context to frame debates about the Gulf region, and illuminate the complexities of Saudi Arabian affairs today." — Middle East Journal

"For the western reader, this collection offers a rare and welcome glimpse of the ongoing debate inside the kingdom." — Saudi Aramco World

"The Kingdom is unlike any other book on Saudi Arabia. Fascinating essays by distinguished academics and journalists take the reader on a journey through identity, society, and the politics of one of the world's most powerful, surviving traditional monarchies. At times wonderfully unconventional, these essays move the debate away from dry, laborious, and often impersonal political economy studies. They allow for a new understanding of this enigmatic state through a lens of literature, poetry, political theory, and very high quality journalism." — Christopher Davidson, author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

Related Subjects

• History
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Joshua Craze is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. He studied anthropology at Oxford University, was a researcher at EHESS, and graduated from the University of Amsterdam.Mark Huband is an award-winning journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times. He is the author of several books, including Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam.

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