Behind the Kingdom's Veil

Marketing Bullets • Award-winning Der Spiegel journalist, Susanne Koelbl, appears regularly in German-language media and was most recently distinguised with the Award for Courage by Reporters without Borders. She regularly gives lectures, abroad. and in the U.S. contextualizing current events in the Middle East, such as the war in Syria and the Afghanistan crisis. Her deep knowledge of and experience reporting up-close on Saudia Arabia, as evidenced in Behind the Kingdom’s Veil, dovetails with increasing interest in America’s closest, yet most mysterious ally in the Middle East. October 2019 is the one-year anniversity of jouralist Jamal Kashoggi’s assasination. Lonely Planet is updating its Saudi Arabia gude for the first time in 25 years. The country is gaining attention for its outward show of relaxing cultural strictures such as the ban on women drivers, but Susanne’s unique reporting from the inside reveals that Saudi Arabia is becoming more authoritarian. • Original German-language book (published in June 2019) has sold over 17K print copies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. • Potential endorsers: Thomas Friedman, best-selling author and New York Times columnist; Anderson Cooper, journalist/TV personality, CNN; Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan