num_pages: 495
description: Sandra Mackey lived in Saudi Arabia for four years, and as far as the authorities knew, she was simply the wife of an American doctor. But she saw things and traveled to places rarely viewed by any outsider, let alone a Western woman, and she succeeded in smuggling out a series of crucial articles on Saudi culture and politics. The Saudis offers a fascinating portrait of Saudi life, chronicling Mackey's extraordinary travels and experiences and depicting Saudi Arabia's strange metamorphosis from backward desert kingdom to world power. 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. This updated edition provides the essential background to the new Saudi crisis as the mother state of international terrorism.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Los saudies / The Saudis: Cronicas de una periodista desde el reino oculto del desierto: la realidad social y politica de Arabia Saudi/ Chronicles of ... Contemporary History)
titlecomplete: Los saudies / The Saudis: Cronicas de una periodista desde el reino oculto del desierto: la realidad social y politica de Arabia Saudi/ Chronicles of ... Contemporary History) (Spanish Edition)
genres: History, Politics, Religion, Islam, Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir
ratings_count: 216
publisher: Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A