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Free Download Basma A. Al Mutlaq, "Saudi Women Writers: Sociopolitical and Literary Landscapes"
English | ISBN: 1032855126 | 2025 | 172 pages | EPUB | 891 KB
Saudi Women Writers: Sociopolitical and Literary Landscapes details the achievements of Saudi women fiction writers from the 1960s up to the present day, many of whose works have yet to be published in English translation.

Free Download The History of Saudi Arabia
by Wayne H. Bowen
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9798765114582 | 249 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.76 MB

Free Download Tim Niblock, "Saudi Arabia (The Contemporary Middle East)"
English | 2006 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 0415303109 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Saudi Arabia provides a clear, concise yet analytical account of the development of the Saudi state. It details the country’s historical and religious background, its oil rentier economy and its international role, showing how they interact to create the dynamics of the contemporary Saudi state.

Free Download Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia (Audiobook)
English | September 10, 2024 | ASIN: B0DFQJ7QDR | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 9m | 176 MB
Author: Johanne Durocher | Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Johanne Durocher fights to free her daughter and four grandchildren from a nightmarish life of abuse and poverty in Saudi Arabia.
In 2001, Nathalie Morin was just seventeen when she met Saeed, a Saudi man who claimed to be studying in Montreal. She fell in love with him, but soon after she gave birth to their son, Saeed was deported back to his country of origin. Struggling as a single mother and wanting Samir to know his father, Nathalie travelled to Saudi Arabia to reunite her family, confident that she would be able to return to Canada whenever she wanted. But a trap was closing around her ― her partner turned out to be authoritarian and violent, the abuse continuing until their last child was born.

Free Download The Economy of Saudi Arabia in the 21st Century: Prospects and Realities (Middle East Political Economy) edited by John Sfakianakis
English | June 28, 2024 | ISBN: 019886387X | True PDF | 464 pages | 8.4 MB
This book is about Saudi Arabia’s efforts to overhaul its economy and the numerous prospects and challenges it faces in doing so. As one of the world’s leading oil producers, the outcomes of the most ambitious wave of reforms Saudi Arabia has ever undertaken will provide valuable lessons not only for the kingdom itself but also for other oil-dependent and resource-based economies.

Free Download Mark C. Thompson, "Saudi Youth: Policies and Practices "
English | ISBN: 9819998662 | 2024 | 226 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This edited collection develops a more balanced understanding of the dilemmas, challenges and opportunities associated with youth policy formulation and implementation in contemporary Saudi Arabia. It does so by considering the dilemmas, challenges and opportunities present in the contemporary Saudi sociopolitical, socioeconomic, and sociocultural spheres, as well as ways and means by which these can be addressed. Underpinning this is a comprehension of the necessity in understanding policies and processes as related to youth policy formulation and implementation. With regards to Saudi youth policy, decision makers want to be able to prioritize the most important issues. As such, policy and decision makers need ‘direction’ in terms of policy formulation, policy recommendations and policy implementation – that is, they are often searching for viable policies that resonate with young Saudis. Furthermore, lessons can be learnt from previous youth policy initiatives by asking: Why was thispolicy successful? If this policy failed, what were the reasons? Did this policy resonate with young nationals? This edited book unpacks the ways in which comprehending policies and processes are important for youth policy development and implementation in Saudi Arabia. It is relevant to policymakers, as well as scholars in Gulf Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies more broadly, as well as those in youth studies, area studies, and social studies.

Free Download Simon Mabon, "Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 178831414X | 2019 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 844 KB
In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between these two states, often manifesting themselves in the conflicts across the region, such as those in Lebanon and Iraq, and more recently in Bahrain and Syria.

Free Download Women in Saudi Arabia Today By Mona AlMunajjed
1997 | 164 Pages | ISBN: 0333638123 | PDF | 10 MB
The book studies the social issues related to the status of women in Saudi Arabia and the extent to which Saudi Arabian women actively participate in the development of their country. It also focuses on education and work outside the home as they affect the traditional role of the Saudi woman as wife, mother and homemaker. At the same time, those factors promote the participation of women in the development of Saudi Arabia. The book examines also the quality of Saudi women’s lives in a traditional society and the meaning of their social reality. Intensive interviews were held with 100 Saudi women in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from different social, economic and educational levels.

Free Download Syria and Saudi Arabia: Collaboration and Conflicts in the Oil Era By Sonoko Sunayama
2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1845113020 | PDF | 5 MB
The nature of the relationship between Syria and Saudi Arabia during the oil era poses many questions for the commentators and analysts of inter-Arab politics during this period. Why have these two states pursued mutually conflicting aims in almost every major regional or international foreign policy issue? Why, over the course of the past thirty years, have they often propagated contrasting ideological banners while both acting as though some form of an alignment existed between them? Here Sonoko Sunayama explores the apparent paradox behind this longstanding relationship and argues that what ultimately makes Saudis and Syrians so indispensable to each other is the perception and the historical appeal of ‘shared identities’, be they Arabism or Islam.

Free Download Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities By Larry Smith, Abdulrahman Abouammoh (auth.), Larry Smith, Abdulrahman Abouammoh (eds.)
2013 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 9400763204 | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides the first academically rigorous description and critical analysis of the Higher Education system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and of the vision, strategies and policy imperatives for the future development of Saudi universities. The government of Saudi Arabia has recognized in both policy and practice the necessity of developing its university system to world-class standard. Significantly increasing access and participation in Higher Education across a range of traditional and non-traditional disciplines is directly relevant to the future social and economic growth of the country. This book addresses the way in which Saudi Arabia is moving to develop a quality university system that balances the need for students to gain the knowledge, skills and ‘ways of doing’ necessary to operate effectively on the world stage while simultaneously maintaining and demonstrating the fundamental values of the Islamic religion and culture. The book provides a description and critical analysis of the key components of the Saudi Higher Education system, and of system-level responses to the challenges and opportunities facing Saudi universities. It is written by a team of Saudi academics and authors of international standing from non-Saudi universities so as to provide both internal and external perspectives on all issues and to place information and ideas in the context of the international Higher Education scene.