For years, it seems that people have been yelling at our schedulers to take proper notice of Saudi Arabia, its theocratic royal house and its premier export: oil. Now, after a cameraman, Simon Cumbers, is killed and the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner is lying in a hospital bed, ...
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“We need people outside Saudi Arabia to see how we live, to see what the camel means for us,” says Sultan Al-Bogomi, an official spokesperson of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival. “It’s part of our living, our parents’ living. They drink the camels, they have the meat of the ...
I liked the part of London we stayed in, but of course, it’s the place where so many insanely wealthy people live. Princes from Dubai. Rock stars. Why is it that they get the parts that are lovely? I read the story of some wealthy crook from Saudi Arabia who came and spent a fo...
s writing style. He refers to that brassbound complacency among conservatives which allows them to assume that “everything must be all right as long as a self-declared conservative is in the White House.” The supine posture toward the Saudis is captured with a caustic epigram: “the fear...