Charles Huber is a French-Alsatian geographer who achieved fame as one of the 19th century’s great Arabian explorers. On his two heroic journeys between 1880 and 1884, he pioneered the scientific mapping of inland Arabia and made some of the earliest records of...
Crossroads of Destiny Michael Crawford on The Imam, the Pasha and the Englishman Ahead of the publication of his latest book The Imam, the Pasha and the Englishman, author Michael Crawford reflects on what inspired him to write about an unexpected historical...
The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story of his Department’s involvement in Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to Nine Eleven 2001. It begins with the backing given by Saudi Arabia to the...
The dramatic encounter between Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi foe, Imam ‘Abd Allah, in Cairo in November 1818 marks the symbolic end of the First Saudi State. ‘Abd Allah was in transit to public execution in Istanbul, the...
A vivid portrait of the early days of Saudi Arabia from the unique perspective of the first Western woman to travel openly across Saudi Arabia as a non-Muslim. At the end of March 1937, Geraldine Rendel found she had achieved a trio of unintended distinctions....