8 best-selling politics books like The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia by Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد

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The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

By: Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the internati…

If you liked the politics plot in The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia by Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

By: Joby Warrick

3.64

Format: None pages, ebook

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

In "The Siege of Mecca," acclaimed journalist Yaroslav Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilli… read more

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3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By: J.D. Vance

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more

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4. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

By: Sheri Fink

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstruc… read more

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5. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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6. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

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7. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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8. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد's The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

By: Celeste Headlee

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"

-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

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12. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

By: Ben Hubbard

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"

-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

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13. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By: Julie Zhuo

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

By: David Rundell

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Adv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

By: Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the internati… read more

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction

9 Top history books like The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia by Madawi AlRasheed مضاوي الرشيد

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Joby Warrick

3.64

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Vincent Bevins

4.28

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Kim Ghattas

4.40

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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