Overview
The Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection is a 2016 Political Science book authored by Medea Benjamin who is a political activist and a co-founder of CODEPINK, the peace promoter group. This book nominates to roots of establishing of the Saudi Arabia government and the relationship between it and the United States. The author try to explain some particular of political system of Saudi Arabia at the Kingdom of the Unjust such as a number of rules about women.
Author
Medea Benjamin wrote the Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection. She is a political activist and one of the founders of CODEPINK, an organization promoting peace. She has tried to establish social justice for 40 years. New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times have portrayed her as "one of America's most committed fighters for human rights" and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement"". Benjamin has won peace awards including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial, the Gandhi Peace Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Award.
Motivation
The author of Kingdom of the Unjust says she was motivated by the amount of weapons bought by Saudi Arabia. Then Benjamin considered the human rights in Saudi Arabia for women. Realizing something about the country was wrong, she decided to inform Americans about Saudi Arabia's connections with the United States. She wrote "Kingdom of the Unjust", hoping to change the political dimension.
How Saudi Arabia gains its power and how it influences the world are two important goals addressed by the writer.
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