Relatively speaking, it’s not a very good time to be a member of a royal family in the Middle East. Even though their position of power seems more secure than in some neighboring countries, Saudia Arabia’s leaders were shaken by the departure of a strong ally, Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak. If more important Saudi allies, like Bahrain, fall to the protestors, what will it mean for the royal family? To talk more about this powerful family and monarchy in the Middle East, we’re joined by Robert Lacey, author of “Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia.”
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