Politics Outside of The Royal Family
Politics in Saudi Arabia, outside of the royal family, can be examined in three contexts: the extent to which the royal family allows political participation by the wider Saudi society, opposition to the regime, and Islamist terrorism.
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—Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)
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—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
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