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Saudi Arabia is a country in a hurry. It’s strange, really, that a land for so long content to follow the traditional ways, where the endless wandering in the tribal dirah was the only way of life, the immutable behaviour patterns of a people so close to the limit in terms of survival or death, should suddenly want to push ahead so quickly, so feverishly and to destroy what for many of them is the noblest way of life.
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© 1978 Peter Hobday
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Hobday, P. (1978). The 140-billion-dollar dream. In: Saudi Arabia Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03214-3_4
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