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A special history on Saudi Arabia, its uneasy relationship with America, and the challenges the kingdom confronts as tradition and modernity violently collide.
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interviewsanalysischronology: house of sauda royal family tree

Saudi royal family members, officials, activists, religious leaders, and foreign experts

Prospects for reform, background on Saudi Islamists and, "the most pivotal issue"

Events in the U.S.-Saudi alliance, the reign of the Al Saud family and the region's geopolitics

The line of succession from Abd al-Aziz, with sketches of the kings and some of the princes

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House of Saud

The House of Saud has controlled every aspect of Saudi life and politics since the kingdom was established in 1932. But outside the Desert Kingdom little is known about Saudi Arabia's secretive royal family. In "House of Saud" FRONTLINE explores how the Al Saud family maintains its hold on power in the face of growing tensions between Islam and modernity. Through interviews with members of the royal family government officials and other experts from Saudi Arabia and the U.S. the two-hour documentary also traces America's relations with the Saudi royal family from their first alliance in the 1930s through September 11 and beyond to the present day.

posted feb. 8, 2005

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