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Is the Hidden Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ready to open to the World? | Foreign Correspondent
Is the Hidden Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ready to open to the World? | Foreign Correspondent
- published: 25 Feb 2020
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The ‘hidden kingdom’ of Saudi Arabia has been mostly closed to journalists and travellers…until now. In a glitzy PR push, the country wants to promote itself as a tourist destination. Foreign Correspondent rides the magic carpet to extraordinary sites, thousands of years old, holding mysteries archaeologists are just beginning to uncover. It’s part of a multi-billion-dollar campaign by leader Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, to modernise the economy, diversify it away from oil dependency, and liberalise the austere, puritanical form of Islam that’s locked up the country for decades. But will the notoriously repressive regime deliver on its promise to reform? Reporter Sam Hawley witnesses the social revolution underway, speaking with a woman uber driver, a woman scuba instructor and one of the nation’s first stand-up comedians. The comedian explains he must operate within unwritten laws. “We can’t go to the red lines… even if one day the government says it\'s okay to talk about this and that. Okay, go talk about sex, religion, whatever ’, he says. ‘If you speak about it, people won\'t feel comfortable. ” But the dark side of the regime remains. Foreign Correspondent gains a rare interview with Hatice Cengiz, the fiancé of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi. His brutal dismemberment by a Saudi hit squad shocked the world and still stains the country’s international reputation. A year on, Hatice Cengiz says she lives in fear and that the world has failed to hold the Saudi government to account for the brutal killing. Sam Hawley charts the broad...
Is the Hidden Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ready to open to the World? | Foreign Correspondent
- published: 25 Feb 2020
- views: 338
The ‘hidden kingdom’ of Saudi Arabia has been mostly closed to journalists and travellers…until now. In a glitzy PR push, the country wants to promote itself as a tourist destination. Foreign Correspondent rides the magic carpet to extraordinary sites, thousands of years old, holding mysteries archaeologists are just beginning to uncover. It’s part of a multi-billion-dollar campaign by leader Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, to modernise the economy, diversify it away from oil dependency, and liberalise the austere, puritanical form of Islam that’s locked up the country for decades. But will the notoriously repressive regime deliver on its promise to reform? Reporter Sam Hawley witnesses the social revolution underway, speaking with a woman uber driver, a woman scuba instructor and one of the nation’s first stand-up comedians. The comedian explains he must operate within unwritten laws. “We can’t go to the red lines… even if one day the government says it\'s okay to talk about this and that. Okay, go talk about sex, religion, whatever ’, he says. ‘If you speak about it, people won\'t feel comfortable. ” But the dark side of the regime remains. Foreign Correspondent gains a rare interview with Hatice Cengiz, the fiancé of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi. His brutal dismemberment by a Saudi hit squad shocked the world and still stains the country’s international reputation. A year on, Hatice Cengiz says she lives in fear and that the world has failed to hold the Saudi government to account for the brutal killing. Sam Hawley charts the broad...
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