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Saudi Arabia is changing. In 2015, King Abdullah (born 1924) died and was succeeded by King Salman, then aged 80.
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Fadaak, T.H., Roberts, K. (2019). Saudi Arabia. In: Youth in Saudi Arabia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04381-0_1
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