Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohamm

Description: Behind the Kingdom's Veil by Susanne Koelbl, Karen Elliott House Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Marketing Bullets Award-winning Der Spiegel journalist, Susanne Koelbl, appears regularly in German-language media and was most recently distinguised with the Award for Courage by Reporters without Borders. She regularly gives lecturesabroadand in the UScontextualizing current events in the Middle East, such as the war in Syria and the Afghanistan crisis. Her deep knowledge of and experience reporting up-close on Saudia Arabia, as evidenced in Behind the Kingdoms Veil, dovetails with increasing interest in Americas closest, yet most mysterious ally in the Middle East. October 2019 is the one-year anniversity of jouralist Jamal Kashoggis assasination. Lonely Planet is updating its Saudi Arabia guide for the first time in twenty-fiveyears. The country is gaining attention for its outward show of relaxing cultural strictures such as the ban on women drivers, but Susannes unique reporting from the inside reveals that Saudi Arabia is becoming more authoritarian. The original German-language book (published in June 2019) has sold over 17K print copies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and was awarded the an ITB BookAward in2020 for the "Culture" category.Potential endorsers: Thomas Friedman, bestselling author and New York Times columnist; Anderson Cooper, journalist/TV personality, CNN; Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan Author Biography Susanne Koelbl is an award-winning journalist and a military and foreign correspondent for the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Her stories highlight the intricate dynamics in conflict areas and wars around the world, including the Balkans, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Koelbl is known for her probing reports from Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. Her highly acclaimed book Dark Beloved Country: People and Power in Afghanistan. was published in 2009.Always close to the people, Koelbl uses their voices to make complicated political and societal contexts accessible. For her in-depth and thorough reporting she received several industry recognitions, including the Liberty Award and the Henry-Nannen-Price award. In her exceptional interviews with state leaders, intelligence-chiefs and Islamic extremists, Koelbl repeatedly challenges the powerful, including the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (wanted for genocide with an international arrest warrant), or the underground Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. Koelbl has excellent contacts in all political camps in the Middle East.Koelbl is a fellow of the Bertelsmann Foundations German-Israeli Young Leaders Program, a Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and was named a Media Ambassador with the German-Chinese Exchange Program of the Bosch Foundation at Tsingua University in Beijing. As a Knight Wallace Fellow, Koelbl gave guest lectures in 2012 on the war in Syria and the forty-year Afghanistan crisis. As a Knight Wallace alumni Koelbl is connected and tied into top influential media outlets in the US.The author has been travelling to Saudi Arabia since 2011. Most recently she lived in Riyadh during 2018-2019. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany.Karen Elliott House (1947-) was born in Matador, Texas, population 900. She earned a BJ degree at UT Austin where she discovered the world of news reporting on the student newspaper. She was a reporter, foreign editor and finally publisher of The Wall Street Journal, where she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her reporting on the Middle East. Her first book, "On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future," published by Knopf in 2012 is a portrait of Saudi society and culture and examines the fragility of the ruling regime. The book repesents three decades of reporting in this shrouded kingdom. She currently resides in Boston, MA. Details ISBN 1642503444 ISBN-13 9781642503449 Title Behind the Kingdom's Veil Author Susanne Koelbl, Karen Elliott House Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 384 Publisher Mango Media GE_Item_ID:140554670; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. 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