Download or read book Saudi Arabia Undercover written by Harper Walsh and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no party ... or so we thought. In Saudi Arabia Undercover, expat Harper Walsh busts this myth with true stories of homemade alcohol, pill popping, parties staffed by pretty Ethiopian girls in expat gated compounds, smuggled bacon sandwiches and frequent trips over the border into Bahrain for booze and sex. With few opportunities for Saudi men to interact with women – beyond flirtatious eye contact with burqa-clad supermarket checkout girls and the unceasing sexual abuse of Filipina maids – the use of gay dating apps is rife. In this hilarious piece of gonzo journalism, Walsh and his merry band of expat misfits walk readers down the male-dominated streets of Saudi Arabia, where a Friday night’s entertainment might include a visit to McDonald’s followed by a public decapitation at Chop Chop Square, and on much-deserved R&R breaks to Bahrain, Bangkok and Cairo, where a glass of cold beer does not invite 100 lashes, imprisonment and certain deportation.
Download or read book Saudi Arabia on the Edge written by Thomas W. Lippman and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabia's unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between the non-Muslim West and the Muslim world. For all its wealth, the country faces daunting challenges that it lacks the tools to meet: a restless and young population, a new generation of educated women demanding opportunities in a closed society, political stagnation under an octogenarian leadership, religious extremism and intellectual backwardness, social division, chronic unemployment, shortages of food and water, and troublesome neighbors. Today's Saudi people, far better informed than all previous generations, are looking for new political institutions that will enable them to be heard, but these aspirations conflict with the kingdom's strict traditions and with the House of Saud's determination to retain all true power. Meanwhile, the country wishes to remain under the protection of American security but still clings to a system that is antithetical to American values. Basing his work on extensive interviews and field research conducted in the kingdom from 2008 through 2011 under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations, Thomas W. Lippman dissects this central Saudi paradox for American readers, including diplomats, policymakers, scholars, and students of foreign policy.
Download or read book Prince Undercover written by Ashraf Habbak and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crown Prince Sultan Qurayshi has just expressed his support for the king’s new political reforms despite the wishes of many of the royal family who want the king stripped of his power. After submitting an emergency clause to the legislature, the crown prince ensures the king retains all his newly-founded powers of legislature and presidency, officially suspending democracy. Two months later amid chaos in the kingdom, Faisal Qurayshi, a member of the Royal Strategic Committee, receives an urgent call from his cousin to escape the country with his son, Mansour. A short time later after the king dies and Mansour’s great uncle ascends the throne, the family is reunited and seemingly all is well—until Mansour agrees to go undercover as a spy. After he eventually becomes a civil engineer whose mission is to help the royal family learn ways to transform the country and make it better for everyone, he uncovers corruption in the kingdom and Arlandica and soon realizes that good always defeats evil wherever it hides. In this novel inspired by true events, a prince goes undercover in the Kingdom of Terra Qurayshia where he must keep his identity secret to help the royal family create a better monarchy.
Download or read book Inside the Kingdom written by Carmen Bin Ladin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Israel Undercover written by Steve Posner and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel Undercover focuses on the execution of paramilitary counterterrorist operations against Palestinian guerrillas and the behind-the-scenes negotiations carried out among Arab statesmen, Israeli leaders, and American officials. Intelligence agencies like the CIA and the KGB are often viewed as tools for carrying out "dirty tricks," covert operations that lead to government coups, illegal bombings, political killings, and "Iranscam." In the Middle East, undercover operatives are frequently called upon to serve a dual purpose: to wage clandestine warfare behind enemy lines and to help public officials carry out secret diplomatic moves that would be impossible if carried out under the glare of the world press. This book successfully portrays the cold objectivity that governs the life-and-death foreign policy of a country like Israel-the need to view friend and foe alike with resolute realism. The book is divided into four sections: (1) "Inside Beirut" describes Israel's use of its intelligence network in Lebanon during the 1970s to conduct military reprisals and its impact on the Israeli-Egyptian peace process; (2) "Across the River Jordan" examines the decades-old secret relationship between Israeli leaders and Jordan's King Hussein; (3) "American Dreams" reveals the quiet alliance between the Christian Phalangist militia and Washington's back-door channel to the PLO; and (4) "The Mysterious Middle East" provides a glimpse of the region's special mix of conspiracy and animosity. In order to provide a historical setting and a political context for the events described in the book, material is included from widely published sources, integrated with information gathered from private informants, some of whom have chosen to remain anonymous.
Download or read book Pattaya Undercover written by Ewe Paik Leong and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promising sun, sea, sand and more, Pattaya beach resort in Thailand lures eight million foreign tourists annually. However, behind the glitter lurks broken dreams, ethereal ecstasy and, often, tragedy. And behind every bargirl’s smile and every foreigner’s beer glass lurks a story: happy, touching, heart-wrenching. The author interviews bargirls, mamasans and customers, who reveal true stories of sex scams, doomed relationships and tragic suicides. The author’s investigation takes him to the capital, Bangkok, as well as to an Isaan village in northeastern Thailand, and further afield to Saigon in Vietnam and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. He returns to Pattaya with a warning: You enter the manipulative world of the Pattaya bargirls at your own risk!
Download or read book Saudi Arabia written by Badr Ḥājj and published by Garnet Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documented analysis of early photographs of Saudi Arabia, collected from private and public archives in Europe and across the Middle East. Covering the years 1861 to 1939, this work includes the first ever pictures taken of Mecca and Medina, by General Mohammed Sadek Bey.
Download or read book Saudi Arabia and the United States written by Parker T. Hart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening of a U.S. consulate in Dhahran in 1944 through the conclusion of his ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia in 1965, Parker T. Hart played a critical part in building the U.S.-Saudi security relationship, a key aspect of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East to this day. Drawing on his personal involvement in events as well as the documentary record, Hart provides fresh insights into early Saudi-U.S. diplomatic relations - from, Franklin D. Roosevelt through Lyndon B. Johnson - and details the construction of the Dhahran airfield, King Faisal's consolidation of the Saudi nation, and U.S./U.N. intervention to halt Saudi-Egyptian hostilities sparked by the revolutionary war, in Yemen. Saudi Arabia and the United States also offers perspectives on politically sensitive current issues, such as U.S. military bases in the Middle East and the security of the vast Saudi oil reserves.
Download or read book The Ghost Warriors written by Samuel M. Katz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the Ya'mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the Second Intifada. It was the deadliest terror campaign ever mounted against a nation in modern times: the al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada. This is the untold story of how Israel fought back with an elite force of undercover operatives, drawn from the nation's diverse backgrounds and ethnicities--and united in their ability to walk among the enemy as no one else dared. Beginning in late 2000, as black smoke rose from burning tires and rioters threw rocks in the streets, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Arafat's Palestinian Authority embarked on a strategy of sending their terrorists to slip undetected into Israel's towns and cities to set the country ablaze, unleashing suicide attacks at bus stops, discos, pizzerias--wherever people gathered. But Israel fielded some of the most capable and cunning special operations forces in the world. The Ya'mas, Israel National Police Border Guard undercover counterterrorists special operations units, became Israel's eyes-on-target response. Launched on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet, indigenous Arabic-speaking Dovrim, or "Speakers," operating in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza infiltrated the treacherous confines where the terrorists lived hidden in plain sight, and set the stage for the intrepid tactical specialists who often found themselves under fire and outnumbered in their effort to apprehend those responsible for the carnage inside Israel. This is their compelling true story: a tale of daring and deception that could happen only in the powder keg of the modern Middle East. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS
Download or read book NOTOPUSSY written by DAVID GOODWIN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SSS OPEC and Sir James Malory are called upon a mission by S to deal with Notopussy because Notopussy is an evil drug lord. She wants to see Freud Philiphs formula to turn the earth to dust and take over the world and invade Saudi Arabia. Not just that but also Kajina is another drug lord in competition with Notopussy and she must deal with her as well and not just dealing with a drug lord named Notopussy who wants to turn the earth to dust. Notopussy also must deal with Saudi spies as well as Saudi Arabia because the Saudis are in competition within the drug lord war. Does SSS OPEC and Sir James Malory stop Notopussy and Kajina before there is a world war? Read and find out. So enjoy.
Download or read book ON THE DOUBLE written by DAVID GOODWIN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SSS OPEC and Sir James Malory are assigned to assassinate Edward Philiphs because Edward wants to vaporized the planet earth to dust and smoke. SSS OPEC and Sir James Malory must go undercover in the Saudi Secret Service in order to do so. They are acting as double agents to start with. Also, they would have to take part in a few invasions that Edward Philiphs and the Saudi Secret Service in order to do so. Even the Soviet Union in the Ukraine and so on. Also, Zurich, Switzerland and etc. So read and find out.
Download or read book Hide Seek written by John A. Cassara and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One failure of 9/11 that has not received the attention it deserves is the inadequacy of the U.S. and international network of financial transparency reporting requirements to detect terrorist finance. In Hide and Seek, John A. Cassara, an expert in the fields of terrorist financing and money laundering, provides personal insight into the workings of the intelligence and law enforcement communities. He contends that the mistakes made by many different agencies before 9/11 were not isolated. Rather, he says these blunders were a result of bureaucratic cultures, misguided policies, and entrenched ways of doing business. Moreover, vulnerabilities still exist. Cassara's unique background allows personal insight into the real workings of the intelligence and law enforcement communities that failed us on September 11, 2001. His memoir provides a true-life perspective on issues, procedures, government cultures, and decisions that are so vitally important today.
Download or read book OPERATION PENTHOUSE written by ROGER LONDONIARY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S calls OPEC Buhl and Sir Ian Shag for a mission called 'Operation Penthouse' because Dashin Duhl is a KJB nurse who kills CIA and MI-6 agents while having sex. The mission deal with this, however, OPEC Buhl and Sir Ian Shag also deals with Saudi Arabia Premier because he wants to up prices on Italy to ten a gallon and they meet with the Prime Minister of Italy who wants to have the Soviet Union Premier and Secretary of Defence of Saudi Arabia assassinated if they don't give a billion tons of oil and gold to Italy. Read and find out.
Download or read book I Can Say I Slept in Saudi Arabia written by Eleanor M. Hodges and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Can Say, I Slept in Saudi Arabia!", is a true story based on diaries the author kept when she lived in Saudi Arabia with her husband in the mid 1980s. It tells how she was able to go there when her husband was offered a one year contract to work for their bus company, SAPTCO, and the contract stated, "No wife". This story tells how she managed to get there to live, and what she did when she got there. The chapter titles hint at the many experiences the author had; for instance, underground church services, prison ministery, safety, friends, shopping, etc. She wore the Saudi dress for women, (abaya and veil) and went out by herself and rode the bus. If you would like to know what it was like to live in Saudi Arabia back then, the land of mystique, you will enjoy this book.
Download or read book Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks written by Sumanto Al Qurtuby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Indonesia? For centuries, Indonesians have travelled to Saudi Arabia and have been deeply involved in education, scholarship and the creation of centres for Islamic learning in the country. Yet the impact of this type of migration has not yet been the focus of scholarly research and little is known about the important intellectual connections that now exist. This book examines Indonesian educational migrants and intellectual travellers in Saudi Arabia including students, researchers, teachers and scholars to provide a unique portrait of the religious and intellectual linkages between the two countries. Based on in-depth interviews and questionnaires, Sumanto Al Qurtuby identifies the “Indonesian legacy” in Saudi Arabia and examines in turn how the host country's influential Islamic scholars have impacted on Indonesian Muslims. The research sheds light on the dynamic history of Saudi Arabian-Indonesian relations and the intellectual impact of Indonesian migrants in Saudi Arabia.
Download or read book Siam Storm The Series written by Robert A Webster and published by Robert A Webster. This book was released on with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless, Four-Book Comedy Collection Two English scallywags masquerading as hapless heroes and the last surviving warrior monk of an ancient Thai order, leave no stone unturned and no mishap untouched as they hunt for the oft-missing golden box that contains the dental remains of the Buddha. Their exhaustive searches and penchant for mayhem take them from an isolated Thai monastery in the Cardamom jungle to find a renegade monk in Thailand suspected of stealing the Buddha relic. Hunt an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier in Cambodia with ties to a family of scientists who want to clone the Buddha. Pursue an Iranian Mercenary and his team in Vietnam, who are funded by a ruthless sheikh seeking the Buddha relic for revenge, and ultimately, solve the mystery behind the deaths of the Buddha’s descendants. Follow the adventures of a combatant monk and two unlikely heroes as they inject chaos into every situation in Siam Storm, a hilarious high–octane thriller series!
Download or read book Daring to Drive written by Manal Sharif and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.
