David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf StatesPub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom's unlikely rise. Tyler and David discuss why Wahhabism was essential for Saudi state-building, the treatment of Shiites in the Eastern Province and whether discrimination has truly…
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