{"id":12172,"date":"2019-07-08T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2019-08-06T02:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:32:13","slug":"2019-07-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-07-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: The Sacred Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Dr. Sharat G. Lin<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., July 21, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the catastrophic war on Yemen, the gruesome killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and the embargo on Qatar, why does the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoy a special relationship with the U.S. administration? Does the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signal a new era?<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nSharat G. Lin is a research fellow at the San Jos\u00e9 Peace and Justice Center. He writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, social movements, and the Middle East. He has lived in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sharat-G-Lin-SJPJC-SJ-CA-20080429-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sharat-G-Lin-SJPJC-SJ-CA-20080429-c-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sharat-G-Lin-SJPJC-SJ-CA-20080429-c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sharat-G-Lin-SJPJC-SJ-CA-20080429-c-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sharat-G-Lin-SJPJC-SJ-CA-20080429-c.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. 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Lin 11 a.m., July 21, 2019 Despite the catastrophic war on Yemen, the gruesome killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and the embargo on Qatar, why does the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoy a special relationship with the U.S. administration? Does the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signal a new era? \u200b &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-07-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saudi Arabia: The Sacred Relationship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12235,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions\/12235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}