Toby Jones

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Toby Jones is an associate professor of Middle East History at Rutgers University and and the author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia. From 2008-2009, he was a fellow in the Oil Energy and Middle East Program at Princeton University.

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Crown Prince bin Salman Crown Prince bin Salman is in line to be the next King of Saudi Arabia, and he's tightened his grip on power with a weekend purge of 11 princes, four…

Saudi Arabia's weekend purge

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