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
2Preface
3A Note
4For the Business Reader
5Thank you
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61. Sunna and Umma — Tradition and Belonging
7Sunna
8Umma
9The Consensus Culture
10The Other Majlis
11The Majlis at the Core
12The Deeper Layer
132. The House of Saud and the Three Saudi Kingdoms
14The First Kingdom: a Pact in Diriyah
15The Second Kingdom: the Long Defeat
16The Third Kingdom: a Raid Before Dawn
17The Tent, the Well, and the IPO
18The Pendulum
193. The Occupation of the Kaaba — November 1979
20Juhayman
21Dawn
22The Siege
23The Bargain
24Closing the Parenthesis
254. The Architect and the Architecture — MBS and Vision 2030
26The Young Prince
27The Path to Power
28April 2016: the Document
29The Argument Behind the Document
30What has Worked
31What has Not
32From Vision 2030 to Vision 2040
33The Volume Problem
34The Architect
355. The Ritz-Carlton — November 2017
36The Case for the Operation
37The Case Against
38The Settlements
39The New Economic Order
40What it has Produced
416. Closing the Parenthesis — A Country Comes Out
42Driving
43The Guardianship System
44Cinema, Music, and the New Public Life
45The Question of Alcohol
46Women at Work
47A Country Comes Out
48Women in Leadership and on Corporate Boards
497. The Country — A Portrait in the Middle of a Revolution
50A Kingdom of Regions
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