Resource November 7, 2017

Meet the Journalist: Elizabeth Dickinson

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Can Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious plans jumpstart social and economic reform, or are they an expensive miscalculation? Image courtesy State Department. United States, 2016.
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Tumultuous reform at home and aggressive foreign policy abroad spell dramatic change for a...

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Elizabeth Dickinson reports from the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, 2017.
Elizabeth Dickinson reports from the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, 2017.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia held its first mixed-gender summit in October 2017, launching its ambitious sovereign wealth fund. The lavish, cosmopolitan optics were meant to woo foreign investors. But they also had a domestic audience, painting a profoundly new picture of what the future of Saudi Arabia could be, from open transparent stock exchanges down to women driving, abaya optional.

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