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Apparently, all men were the same. It was like God had given them different faces just so that women would be able to tell them apart.
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Rajaa Alsanea (Girls of Riyadh)
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People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.
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P.J. O'Rourke
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أموت شوقا لصوتك.. ليتني أستطيع إيقاظك من النوم الآن.. كئيبة هي الدنيا بدونك.. الليل أظلم من عادته.. والسكون أوحش.. كيف استطعت وانت معي أن تجعل من الليل احتفالا انتظره كل يوم؟ كيف جعلت سكوني صخباً حتى وأنت تغط في النوم؟؟
مجرد حديث بين قلبي وقلبك لا يخضع لأي موازين
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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إذا إنزكمت القاهرة عطست بغداد و سعلت الدار البيضاء و دعت لنا بالشفاء الرياض
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أنيس منصور (قل لي يا أستاذ)
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أرجو ممن لا ناقة لهم ولا جمل عدم حشر أنوفهم فيما لا يعنيهم
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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The pope also knows that wherever radical Islamists become a majority they oppress other faiths. In Muslim countries there is no equal competition for souls, hearts, and minds, because atheists and missionaries and communities of Christians are forced to operate in an atmosphere of physical menace. And
although there are plenty of mosques in Rome, not a single church is permitted in Riyadh.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations)
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When love has been in your life you see that the only true, real pleasure of life is love. Every other thrill arises from that basic source of pleasure. The most meaningful songs are those your lover hums in your presence, the prettiest blossoms are the ones he offers and the only praise that counts is your beloved's. In a word or two, life only goes Technicolor in the very moment love's fingers caress it.
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Rajaa Alsanea (Girls of Riyadh)
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ما اسوأ ان لا يجد الانسان تقديرا من اقرب الناس اليه
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.
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Manil Suri (The City of Devi)
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The no-questions-asked protection that the Americans have extended to Riyadh is about to be lifted wholesale.
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Peter Zeihan (The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On)
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„The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another … the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Sometimes it's hard to believe what we really are.
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Riyadh Razzaq
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On September 16,1978, there was an eclipse of the moon in Riyadh. Late one afternoon it became visible: a dark shadow moving slowly across the face of the pale moon in the darkening blue sky. There was a frantic knocking on the door.When I opened it, our neighbor asked if we were safe. He said it was the Day of Judgment, when the Quran says the sun will rise from the west and the seas will flood, when all the dead will rise and Allah's angels will weigh our sins and virtue, expediting the good to Paradise and the bad to Hell. Though it was barely twilight, the muezzin suddenly called for prayer—not one mosque calling carefully after the other, as they usually did, but all the mosques clamoring all at once, all over the city. There was shouting across the neighborhood. When I looked outside I saw people praying in the street. Now more neighbors came knocking,asking us to pardon past misdeeds. They told us children to pray for them, because children's prayers are answered most. The gates of Hell yawned open before us. We were panicked.... but the next morning, the sun was safely in its usual place, fat and implacable, and the world wasn't ending after all.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Infidel)
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The decisions being made in today’s world that really matter are not being made in Paris, London, Berlin or Rome—as they were a hundred years ago—but in Beijing and Moscow, in Tehran and Riyadh, in Delhi and Islamabad, in Kabul and in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, in Ankara, Damascus and Jerusalem.
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Peter Frankopan (The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order)
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with few apparent connections to Afghanistan as such, but there were no calls to bomb Riyadh (imagine if the hijackers had been Iraqi). Rather, Saudi Arabia is a favoured ally in the 'war against terrorism'. It is obvious that at stake here are US geopolitical interests (discussed further below), more than concerns to prevent future terrorism.
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Mark Curtis
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قلوب تخشى الإنكسار بعد الإنكسار الأول، فتبقى في خيامها حتى تأتي يدي غريب لتصلح أوتادها
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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the government-controlled Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column declaring that “the Jews’ spilling human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established fact.
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Stephen Greenblatt (Shakespeare's Freedom (The Rice University Campbell Lectures))
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a fish-shaped coastal territory at India’s tip, its head pointing to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and its tail to Goa, while the eyes gaze wistfully across the ocean to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Riyadh.
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Abraham Verghese (The Covenant of Water)
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The United States made no secret of its desire to have the House of Saud bankroll Osama bin Laden's Afghan war against the Soviet Union during the 1980s, and Riyadh and Washington together contributed an estimated $3.5 billion to the mujahideen.5 However, U.S. and Saudi participation went far beyond this.
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John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)
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Riyadh was the base of the government, but none of the Al Sa’ud family particularly enjoyed the city; their complaints never ended about the dreariness of life in Riyadh. It was too hot and dry, the men of religion took themselves too seriously, the nights were too cold. Most of the family preferred Jeddah or Taif.
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Jean Sasson (The Complete Princess Trilogy: Princess; Princess Sultana's Daughters; and Princess Sultana's Circle)
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الحمل هو الطريقة الأضمن لاستمرار الحياة الزوجية، استمرارها لا نجاحها
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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أخبرها إنه يرثي لحال خطيبته منذ الآن لأنها ارتبطت برجل قد تذوق طعم الكمال في إمراءة قبلها، وسيظل الطعم على لسانه، يستحيل على امرأة عادية أن تمحوه
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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الرجال لا يحبون دائما من يحترمون، والنساء بالعكس لايحترمن إلا من احبهن
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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ارتكبت غلطة المحب الكبرى وهي امتناع العقل والقلب عن استقبال أي رسائل غير مرغوب بها من الحبيب
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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أن كثيراً من هؤلاء الأزواج يخفون تحت ابتسامتهم قلوباً دامية ونفوساً مغبون حقها في اختيار شريك حياتها
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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هكذا أصبحت الفتاة الساذجة مطلوبة وقيدت (الفاهمة) على لائحة العوانس التي تطول مع الأيام وفقاً لمتطلبات الشباب الذي لا يعرف ما يريد، ويرفض بناءً على ذلك الارتباط بفتاة تعرف تماماً ماذا تريد
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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- Ja sam na to gledala ovako - ne zaslužujem ništa manje od njega. Međutim moj je broj jedan pristao biti sa nekim manje vrednim od mene, pa sam i ja sada prisiljena biti sa nekim manje vrednim od njega.
- Tu se ne slažem sa tobom. Što se mene tiče, moj broj jedan je otišao, ali će doći neko ko je još bolji od njega! Nikada se neću podceniti, i nikada neću biti zadovoljna mrvicama.
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Rajaa Alsanea (Girls of Riyadh)
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One report described how on June 22, 1998, forty Chechens were quietly brought to a secret military camp located seventy-five miles southeast of Riyadh. Over the next four months, they were trained in explosives, hand-to-hand combat, and small weapons. A lot of time was set aside for indoctrination into Wahhabi Islam. Salman, the governor of Riyadh and the full brother of King Fahd, was the camp’s sponsor.
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Robert B. Baer (Sleeping with the Devil)
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Svako ko je proživeo ljubav i ko zna koliko daleko ona može ići, nikada ne može biti zadovoljan s ljubavlju koja je osrednja. Sada ne mogu pristati na manje. Jednostavno ne mogu! Moja ljubav prema njemu - bila je ljubav mog života. Gle, iako sam ga izagnala iz svog života, on još uvek u mojoj glavi stoji kao kip prema kojem merim svakog drugog muškarca, i na žalost, svima drugima nešto fali. I naravno, ja sam ta koja gubi takvim usporedbama.
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Rajaa Alsanea (Girls of Riyadh)
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An independent IS isn’t perceived in Riyadh as being all that problematic. As a radical militant group, IS has committed itself to the eradication of any who do not espouse its somewhat wackadoo version of Sunni Islam. While that undoubtedly includes some 99 percent of the human population, the strict Salafist strain of Islam the Saudis follow is fairly similar to IS’ own religious ideology, putting the House of Saud at the bottom of IS’ to-massacre list.
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Peter Zeihan (The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America)
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Di bulan April 1978, di Aiglemont, Gouviuex, Prancis sebuah seminar diadakan oleh Aga Khan untuk membahas arsitektur Islam. Banyak pembicaraan menyesali hilangnya "ciri Islam" dalam kota dan bangunan baru di Timur Tengah kini. Hanya seorang ahli sejarah dari Turki, Dogan Kuban, yang memenangkan debat itu dengan mengingatkan, bahwa "arsitektur adalah sebuah profesi yang berorientasi kepada klien". Jika klien yang di Riyadh itu suka gedung model New York, mau apa?
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Goenawan Mohamad (Catatan Pinggir 1)
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Early in 2017, the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Saleh Al al-Sheikh, hosted a dinner at his home in Riyadh for the Committee of Senior Scholars, during which Mohammed bin Salman outlined his plans for economic and social reform. The prince told the religious scholars that economic development was crucial to the kingdom’s future but could not advance without social liberalization. He assured them that Islam and their role as its guardians would always be respected in Saudi Arabia but insisted that some things would have to change and that their support was both needed and expected.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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Yet I couldn't connect this racial purity with the warmth of the toothless, lined Bedouin women who showed me such affection in the hospital. I thought about the Bedouin patients I had attended in Riyadh and what they had taught me of acceptance. Surely these Bedouin were the purest Saudis of all, Daughters of Arabia, borne of tribal forebears who had roamed Arabia before the slick of oil wealth suffocated their culture, washing them up like half-dead seagulls into the new urban metropolis of modern Saudi Arabia. I decided it had to be wealth which made the stark difference. All I had to do was think back to the “real” Saudis I had met in Riyadh, so different than the women sharing this tent with me.
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Qanta A. Ahmed (In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom)
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Lottie felt her breath catch in her throat; something was wrong. Her body felt as if it were suddenly moving in slow motion. “Ellie Wolf.” The audience cheered. Lottie tried to join in, but the dizzy sensation was overpowering her. I need to sleep, she thought desperately, but there was something else, something clawing at the back of her mind. “Marzia Hart.” The cheering began to get distant and Lottie helplessly bashed her hands against her ears, trying to will some clarity into her mind. What had Binah said about gifts again? “Thomas Carter.” She looked up at the duellers, but their white armor seemed to be fading in front of her. Everything started turning black and she desperately tried to blink it away. “Lottie, are you okay?” The voice was coming from Binah, but Lottie pushed her aside to get to the stairs. “Riyadh Murphy.” Lottie desperately waded through cheering people. The world
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Connie Glynn (The Rosewood Chronicles #1: Undercover Princess)
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There is no solution for Europe other than deepening the democratic values it invented. It does not need a geographical extension, absurdly drawn out to the ends of the Earth; what it needs is an intensification of its soul, a condensation of its strengths. It is one of the rare places on this planet where something absolutely unprecedented is happening, without its people even knowing it, so much do they take miracles for granted. Beyond imprecation and apology, we have to express our delighted amazement that we live on this continent and not another. Europe, the planet's moral compass, has sobered up after the intoxication of conquest and has acquired a sense of the fragility of human affairs. It has to rediscover its civilizing capabilities, not recover its taste for blood and carnage, chiefly for spiritual advances. But the spirit of penitence must not smother the spirit of resistance. Europe must cherish freedom as its most precious possession and teach it to schoolchildren. It must also celebrate the beauty of discord and divest itself of its sick allergy to confrontation, not be afraid to point out the enemy, and combine firmness with regard to governments and generosity with regard to peoples. In short, it must simply reconnect with the subversive richness of its ideas and the vitality of its founding principles.
Naturally, we will continue to speak the double language of fidelity and rupture, to oscillate between being a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. That is our mental hygiene: we are forced to be both the knife and the wound, the blade that cuts and the hand that heals. The first duty of a democracy is not to ruminate on old evils, it is to relentlessly denounce its present crimes and failures. This requires reciprocity, with everyone applying the same rule. We must have done with the blackmail of culpability, cease to sacrifice ourselves to our persecutors. A policy of friendship cannot be founded on the false principle: we take the opprobrium, you take the forgiveness. Once we have recognized any faults we have, then the prosecution must turn against the accusers and subject them to constant criticism as well. Let us cease to confuse the necessary evaluation of ourselves with moralizing masochism. There comes a time when remorse becomes a second offence that adds to the first without cancelling it. Let us inject in others a poison that has long gnawed away at us: shame. A little guilty conscience in Tehran, Riyadh, Karachi, Moscow, Beijing, Havana, Caracas, Algiers, Damascus, Yangon, Harare, and Khartoum, to mention them alone, would do these governments, and especially their people, a lot of good. The fines gift Europe could give the world would be to offer it the spirit of critical examination that it has conceived and that has saved it from so many perils. It is a poisoned gift, but one that is indispensable for the survival of humanity.
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Pascal Bruckner (The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism)
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تؤمن لميس أن تسلط الرجل لا يأتي من فراغ ، وإنما بعد عثوره على امرأة تحب هذا التسلط منه وتساعده على الاستمرار فيه : - أنا أعتقد إنو الرجال ما بيكزبوا لكن همّا لؤما شوية . الواحد يبدأ يتهرب من البنت بعد ما تصير سهلة معاه وبعد ما يحس إنو خلاص ما صارت تمسّل تحدي بالنسبة لو ، لكن ما يقول لها هادا الكلام في وشهّا ، ولا يخليها تحس إنو هوا الغلطان ، لأ! يقنعها إنها هيا اللي عندها مشاكل مش هوا ! بعضهم يدّو البنت إشارات علشان تنهي العلاقة بنفسها ، لكن إحنا البنات الأغبياء عمرنا ما نلقط هادي التلميحات ! نظل نشتغل على العلاقة لطلوع الروح ، حتى لو باين عليها من أولها إنها رايحة في ستين داهية ! عشان كده في النهاية ناكل على روسنا ونتهزأ . احنا اللي ما احترمنا نفسنا من البداية وانسحبنا بكرامتنا . تعطيها مشيل تحليلها المنطقي للموقف : - يا حبيبتي هاذي سياسة تطفيش معروفة عند العيال . تلاقينه فكر وقال وش يخليني آخذ واحدة مطلقة وأنا ما قد تزوجت ؟ إذا الرجال المطلق نفسه يدوّر على بنت ما تكون تزوجت قبله ، تبغين هذا يقتنع بمطلقة ؟ تلاقينه حسبها في مخه وقال بكرة أنا إذا بغيت أصير وزير والا وكيل وزارة يبغى لي واحدة تشرفني اسم وشكل ونسب ومركز اجتماعي وفلوس !ما آخذ واحدة معيوبة (مطلقة) علشان الناس تاكلني بألسنتها ! هذا تفكير شبابنا مع الأسف ! تلاقين الواحد مهما تطور والا ارتقى بفكره ومهما حب وعشق يظل يعتبر الحب مجرد كلام روايات وأفلام وما يثق في كونه دعامة تصلح لبناء أسرة ! تلاقينه مثقف ومتعلم وشايف وعارف ومتأكد بداخله إن الحب غريزة إنسانية طبيعية وما هو عيب إن الواحد يختار شريكة حياته بنفسه ما دام مقتنع فيها ، لكن يظل خايف إنه يسلك طريق غير اللي سلكه أبوه وعمه وجده قبله ، دامهم عايشين مع حريمهم إلى الآن أجل تجربتهم هي الناجحة والمضمونة ، يتبعهم زي الحـ......... ولا يخالفهم علشان ما حد يجي في يوم ويشمت فيه إذا فشل
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رجاء عبد الله الصانع (Girls of Riyadh)
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It’s one thing to confront militant Islamists on pickup trucks, armed with Kalashnikov rifles,” I said, referring to the ISIS terrorist threat that still captured the world’s attention. “It’s another thing to confront militant Islamists armed with weapons of mass destruction. Imagine how much more dangerous the Islamic state of ISIS would be if it possessed chemical weapons. Now imagine how much more dangerous the Islamic state of Iran would be if it possessed nuclear weapons.”3 But there was a silver lining. “I believe we have an historic opportunity,” I said. “After decades of seeing Israel as their enemy, leading states in the Arab world increasingly recognize that together we face the same dangers, a nuclear-armed Iran and militant Islamist movements.” Foreshadowing the Abraham Accords, I said, “Many have long assumed that an Israeli-Palestinian peace can help facilitate a broader rapprochement between Israel and the Arab world. I think it may work the other way around: a broader rapprochement between Israel and the Arab world may help facilitate an Israeli-Palestinian peace. To achieve that peace, we must look not only to Jerusalem and Ramallah, but also to Cairo, Amman, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and elsewhere.”4 Two days later I repeated these themes in my meeting with Obama in the White House. As usual, my main emphasis was on Iran. “As you know, Mr. President,” I said, “Iran seeks a deal that would lift the tough sanctions that you worked so hard to put in place and leave it as a threshold nuclear power, and I fervently hope that under your leadership that will not happen.”5 While my warnings on Iran didn’t move Obama, they registered loud and clear in American public opinion and in Congress. This was soon to have momentous consequences.
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Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi: My Story)
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Saudi Arabia continued its policy of supporting jihad and spreading Wahhabism with Koran and Kalashnikov to the war's end and beyond. By the time the guns fell silent, Riyadh had lavished the Bosnian jihad with well over a billion dollars in aid, much of which went to fund the
holy warriors.
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John R. Schindler (Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad)
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Yay! You’re
GAY!
Now what? A GAY BOY’S GUIDE TO LIFE Riyadh Khalaf ILLUSTRATED BY Melissa McFeeters
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Riyadh Khalaf (Yay! You're Gay! Now What?: A Gay Boy's Guide to Life)
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Salman bin Abdulaziz had not expected to inherit these problems. He was only a few years younger than his two full brothers, Sultan and Naif. Both of them had been named crown prince and both had died younger than Salman would be when he ascended the throne. Although fate made Salman an unexpected king, he was not unprepared. He had been governor of Riyadh Province for forty-eight years. Intelligent, pragmatic, hardworking, well organized, and disciplined, he was also strict, demanding, and humorless. He made firm decisions and would become known locally as the “King of Decisiveness.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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In 1891, Imam Faisal bin Turki’s last surviving son, Imam Abd al-Rahman, supported a failed effort to drive the Al Rasheed from the southern Nejd. The Al Rasheed’s victory at the Battle of Mulayda forced him to flee from Riyadh, and the second Saudi State came to an end.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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In the 1890s, Kuwait offered a dramatically more cosmopolitan and commercially vibrant environment than Riyadh. As a result, by his middle teens the future King of Saudi Arabia had acquired firsthand experience of dynastic politics, humiliating exile, and desert warfare. He spoke some English and had watched Sheikh Mubarak conduct commercial and diplomatic relations with Europeans. He was a very unusual young man for his time and place, and he stood six foot, four.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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the dominant motive in Ibn Saud’s recapture of Riyadh was the need to restore the patrimony of the Al Saud,” for he said “Know by God, that what was the right of our forefathers is ours and if we cannot get it by friendly means we will take it with the sword.”26 In 2020, maintaining their historic patrimony still remains the first order of business for Abdulaziz’s heirs.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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having won one a huge gamble when he had very little to lose, Abdulaziz became more conservative. Caution, careful calculation, and reconciliation with defeated opponents now became his signature tactics. After taking Riyadh, he always wanted the odds to be on his side—and, during the decades of near-constant campaigning and over fifty battles that it took him to create modern Saudi Arabia, they usually were.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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In their struggle with al-Qaeda, the Al Saud benefited from several favorable circumstances. The Saudi state was highly centralized, backed by important allies, and determined to hold on to power. A state-controlled media and consolidated education system got out the message that al-Qaeda members were criminals, not heroes. Oil prices were high and the Saudi treasury full. The war in Iraq drew militants away from Riyadh. In a very conservative society, revolution was never likely to be popular and, as we have seen, the Al Saud made some deliberate, and ultimately effective, choices. Unlike the rulers of Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, or Syria, the Saudi government did not turn the army on its own people. Torture was officially abandoned. Collective punishment of families and tribes was avoided. Less dangerous terrorists were treated more as prodigal sons than criminals. Police officers attended the weddings of released terrorists to indicate that they were still part of the community. In a deeply religious society, al-Qaeda was delegitimized in religious terms by respected theologians.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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In 1917 he was still a minor, provincial chieftain in what was nominally part of the Ottoman Empire when he summoned American, Christian missionary doctors to Riyadh from Bahrain. Here is what the wife of one doctor wrote about the meeting: “While you are here, my house is yours” added the sheikh, motioning for Paul to sit down with him. A slave brought in coffee, and while Ibn Saud sipped, he explained that he had asked the doctor to come, neither for his health nor the health of his family, but for the needs of his people. He had already arranged the use of a nearby house for a hospital where he wanted his people treated without any cost to them.5 These American missionary doctors from Bahrain continued to come to the Nejd and Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia until the 1950s, when the Aramco Health Department took over from them.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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Nasser’s new order appeared to be on the way when military officers, pledging “loyalty” to him, seized power in a coup in Syria. This led, in 1958, to a “merger” of Egypt and Syria into what was supposed to be a single country, the United Arab Republic. But then in 1961 other officers seized power in Damascus and promptly withdrew Syria from the new “state.” The following year, Nasser sent troops to intervene in the civil war in Yemen, expecting a quick victory that would expand his reach. Instead it turned into a long battle against royalist guerrillas and a proxy war between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Iran joined with Saudi Arabia to support the guerrillas in resisting the Egyptian forces, one result of which was the establishment of an Iran-Arab Friendship Society, with offices both in Tehran and Riyadh. Nasser would end up calling Yemen his “Vietnam,” a political quagmire that added to the economic woes of the grossly mismanaged Egyptian economy.
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Daniel Yergin (The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations)
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the king very deliberately engineered the unconventional, complicated, and controversial rise of the young and relatively inexperienced Mohammed bin Salman because, to paraphrase The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, If you think there are another dozen princes in Riyadh with the steel, cunning, and ruthlessness as Mohammed bin Salman, you are wrong.
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David Rundell (Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads)
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King Salman knew very well that his father had been in his mid-twenties when he captured Riyadh. Age and experience were not the qualities that had led to this success. What King Abdulaziz had, and what King Salman was looking for, was fire in the belly. Brought up in humiliating exile, King Abdulaziz had been fiercely determined to restore his family’s honor. He had combined exceptional ambition with a ruthless will to power. Such vigor and resolve would be needed again in order to manage a generational leadership transition and drive forward much needed, but contentious, economic and social reforms.
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