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Saudi Arabia – birthplace of violent Islamic puritanism – is playing a dangerous game, writes Alastair Crooke.

An interview with Julian Assange.

The quiet power of oil and money has for decades enabled Saudi Arabia to buy silence and influence. But not for much longer, predicts Nafeez Ahmed.

‘Rich Saudi’ are words that seem to belong together. But Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants highlight another, mainly hidden, reality.

The key facts you need to know about the country's people, environment, oil economy, human rights and more.

Madawi Al-Rasheed examines the prospects and limits of activism in the absolute monarchy.

Its not just for show, as the bombing of Yemen illustrates, writes Vanessa Baird.

Why is the West still cosying up to an ever-more repressive Saudi Arabia? asks Vanessa Baird.

More reviews from the January/February 2016 magazine.

Human Acts by Han Kang; Martin John by Anakana Schofield; What’s Yours is Mine by Tom Slee; Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril by Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants; Muted Modernists by Madawi Al-Rasheed.

Touristes by Vieux Farka Touré and Julia Easterlin; Vesevo by Vesevo.

The Assassin, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Rams, directed by Grímur Hákonarson; This Changes Everything, by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein.

The films, music and books that made the grade this year.

The award-winning rapper, writer, campaigner and lecturer talks to Dan Glazebrook about the myth of white supremacy and the death of racism.

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