Sport, culture and entertainment: Driving tricky Saudi change
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh
By James M. Dorsey
Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has put sports, culture and entertainment, at the cutting edge of his effort to culturally and socially take his conservative kingdom into the 21stcentury. To do so, he needs the approval of the country’s powerful, Sunni Muslim ultr…
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