'Saudi Arabia: inside the kingdom' - A talk by Robery Lacey
Date: Tuesday, 1 Feb 2011 6:30pm to 8:00pm
About the Speaker:
Robert Lacey is a British historian noted for his original research, which gets him close to - and often living alongside - his subjects. His book The Kingdom, a study of Saudi Arabia published in 1981, is acknowledged as required reading for businessmen, diplomats and students all over the world. To research The Kingdom, Robert and his wife Sandi took their family to live for eighteen months beside the Red Sea in Jeddah. Going out into the desert, Robert earned his title as the "method actor" of contemporary biographers. In 2005 Robert returned to Saudi Arabia to research and write a sequel to The Kingdom, a completely new and critically acclaimed book, Inside the Kingdom.
Robert's other books include biographies of the gangster Meyer Lansky, Princess Grace of Monaco and a study of Sotheby's auction house. He co-authored The Year 1000 - An Englishman's World, a description of life at the turn of the last millennium. In 2002, the Golden Jubilee Year of Queen Elizabeth II, he published Royal (Monarch in America), hailed by Andrew Roberts in London's Sunday Telegraph as "compulsively readable", and by Martin Amis in The New Yorker as "definitive".
All Welcome
(first come, first seated)
Please allow at least 15 minutes to clear security