Recommended Readings

In the News

1. PBS Frontline: Saudi Time Bomb?
2. Interview with Prince Talal from Financial Times
3. Is the Military Bulwark Against Islamism Collapsing? from Middle East Forum
4. Losing My Jihadism from The Washington Post
5. The Jihadi Who Kept Asking Why from The New York Times

News Sources

1. Arab News
   
   

Reports

1. 9/11 Five Years Later: Successes and Challenges from the US National Security Council

1. The 9/11 Report from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
2. Human Rights Watch Report from 2001 on Saudi Arabia
3. Saudi Arabia Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 from the US State Department.
4. International Religious Freedom Report 2005: Saudi Arabia from the US State Department
5. Report on Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Saudi Arabia section from Freedom House

1. International Religious Freedom Report 2008 on Saudi Arabia from US State Department
2. Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia from Human Rights Watch, April 2008
3. Universal Periodic Review of Saudi Arabia from Human Rights Watch

1. Human Rights and Saudi Arabia’s Counterterrorism Response: Religious Counseling, Indefinite Detention, and Flawed Trials from Human Rights Watch, August 2009

Books

1. America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier by Robert Vitalis
2. Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership by Parker T. Hart
3. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer
4. Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
5. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Giles Kepel
6. Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity by Joseph Kostiner
7. Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
8. Radical Islam’s Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari’a Law by Paul Marshall
9. Saudi Babylon: Torture, Corruption and Cover-up Inside the House of Saud by Mark Hollingsworth
10. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape
11. Changed Identities: Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia by Mai Yamani
12. Cradle of Islam : The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity by Mai Yamani
13. Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives by Mai Yamani
14. Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation by Madawi Al-Rasheed
15. Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society, and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen by Madawi Al-Rasheed
16. A History of Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
17. Politics in an Arabian Oasis: the Rashidi Tribal Dynasty by Madawi Al-Rasheed
18. The Rule of Law in the Middle East and the Islamic World: Human Rights and the Judicial Process by Eugene Cotran and Mai Yamani
19. Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present by Mark Weston and Wyche Fowler Jr.
20. Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf by Laurence Louër
21. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr
22. Karin in Saudi Arabia by Sami Alrabaa
23. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
24. Saudi Arabia and Its Royal Family by William Powell
25. Islam in the World (Second Edition) by Malise Ruthven
26. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
27. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
28. Their Blood Cries Out by Paul Marshall with Lela Gilbert
29. A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite by Said K. Aburish
30. Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Arabia’s Political, Religious, and Media Frontiers by Madawi Al-Rasheed
31. The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam’s Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov
32. Musaalat Al-Dawlah Al-Saudiyah: Aswat Islamiyah Min Al-Jabal Al-Jadid (Arabic Edition) by Madawi Al-Rasheed
33. Disfigured: A Saudi Woman’s Story of Triumph over Violence by Rania Al-Baz
    
    

Websites and other links

1. Madawi Al Rasheed