The Rise of Saudi Arabia

The Arabia Felix that supplied the ancient world with frankincense, myrrh, and cinnamon – in present-day Yemen – has moved to the northeast of the peninsula, towards what in the greater part of history was simply Arabia Deserta. In the 1930s, under t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The desert kingdom builds on the sand. Like other petrostates, Saudi Arabia diversifies its economy to prepare a future without oil; like most of them, it tackles this transformation from the dirigisme of an autocratic regime; and unlike practically