Kingdom in Motion
A Personal Account from Inside Saudi Arabia's RevolutionBy Sven Otto Littorin
Length8h 21m
About this audiobook
Six Saudi women on the front page of the country’s main newspaper, three with uncovered hair. Unthinkable in 2014, a novelty in 2019, unremarkable in 2026.
Kingdom in Motion explores how Saudi Arabia transformed in less than a decade, at what cost, and where it is heading next.
Sven Otto Littorin argues it is neither Monte Carlo in the desert nor Mordor with air conditioning, but a millennia-old civilization, a 1,400-year religious tradition, a 300-year alliance of sword and pulpit, and a century-old nation-state racing to reinvent itself before the oil money ends.
A former Swedish Minister for Employment and one of the first foreigners employed by the Saudi Ministry of Labor, Littorin spent nine years inside Vision 2030’s decision rooms. This is his account of the Arabia that was, the Arabia that is, and the Arabia that may yet be.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Politics and Government
Length8 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
51Daily Islam
2Preface
52The External Face
3A Note
53The Other Half of the Population
4For the Business Reader
54The Shi’a
5Thank you
55The Economy from the Inside
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61. Sunna and Umma — Tradition and Belonging
56Schools and What They Teach
7Sunna
57The Portrait
8Umma
588. Saudi Arabia and the World
9The Consensus Culture
59The United States
10The Other Majlis
60The Gulf
11The Majlis at the Core
61The United Arab Emirates
12The Deeper Layer
62Qatar
132. The House of Saud and the Three Saudi Kingdoms
63Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman
14The First Kingdom: a Pact in Diriyah
64Israel and the Abraham Accords
15The Second Kingdom: the Long Defeat
65Iran and the War of 2026
16The Third Kingdom: a Raid Before Dawn
66Asia: Pakistan, India, and China
17The Tent, the Well, and the IPO
67The Petrodollar that wasn’t a Treaty
18The Pendulum
68BRICS: Invited, Hedging, Accepted on Paper
193. The Occupation of the Kaaba — November 1979
69What it Adds Up To
20Juhayman
70The Kingdom on its Own Terms
21Dawn
719. Doing Business in the Kingdom
22The Siege
72The Foreign Company in a Sharia Jurisdiction
23The Bargain
73ESG and Sustainability: Navigating the Gap
24Closing the Parenthesis
74Water Scarcity and Climate Risk
254. The Architect and the Architecture — MBS and Vision 2030
75Media Freedom and the Digital Sphere
26The Young Prince
76What This Means for European Business Leaders
27The Path to Power
7710. Europe and the Business Case
28April 2016: the Document
78Why Europe Matters to the Kingdom
29The Argument Behind the Document
79The European Tiers
30What has Worked
80The Nordic Case
31What has Not
81What Europe Brings, What Europe Needs
32From Vision 2030 to Vision 2040
8211. The Open Questions
33The Volume Problem
83The Fiscal Arithmetic
34The Architect
84The Political System and its Limits
355. The Ritz-Carlton — November 2017
85The Question Underneath the Numbers
36The Case for the Operation
86The Test the Kingdom Has Not Yet Faced
37The Case Against
87Vision 2040 and the Productivity Problem
38The Settlements
88A Direction, Not a Program
39The New Economic Order
89The Swedish Precedent
40What it has Produced
90The Slow Thing
416. Closing the Parenthesis — A Country Comes Out
91The Questions That Cannot Be Avoided
42Driving
92The Death Penalty
43The Guardianship System
93Dissent, Detention, and the Limits of Free Speech
44Cinema, Music, and the New Public Life
94The Ten Million Who Build the Kingdom
45The Question of Alcohol
95Khashoggi
46Women at Work
96Religious Resistance and the Limits of the Pendulum
47A Country Comes Out
97The Regional Stakes
48Women in Leadership and on Corporate Boards
98How to Hold This
497. The Country — A Portrait in the Middle of a Revolution
99What I Think
50A Kingdom of Regions
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