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Article: Living Behind Walls: Inside the Desert Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.(Book review)
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- New Zealand International Review
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- September 1, 2009
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LIVING BEHIND WALLS
Inside the Desert Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Author: Bruce M. Petty
Published by: Security Studies Press, Lincoln, Neb., 2008, 233pp, US$27.95.
Of all the Arabic nations, Saudi Arabia is perhaps the most important to Westerners--and the least understood. On the surface a source of stability in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is rent by deep fissures, nowhere more clearly revealed than by the participation of fifteen Saudis in the 9/11 attacks on the United States. But Westerners seeking to understand what makes Saudi Arabia tick face no easy task. They quickly come face to face with the fact that Saudi Arabia is a ...