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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Struggle for Saudi Arabia's Soul"

Roundup

1-28-07

Struggle for Saudi Arabia's Soul [audio 40min]

Journalist Ed Stourton travels to Saudi Arabia, where the first stirrings of democratic change have begun. He finds a deeply conservative country badly shaken by 9/11 and where the war in Iraq is sending would-be democrats scurrying for cover.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Struggle for Saudi Arabia's Soul"