How Saudi Arabia Became Powerful | Middle East Documentary 

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That’s what I always tell people who attribute the Kingdom’s success to oil only :) that there are tons of countries with oil and gas but none are as prosperous and influential as the Kingdom

As a Saudi, thank you for presenting this unbiased overview.. Most us Saudi youth love the living f out of MbS.

For those who didn't know Oil existed in Eastern Arabia and people used it throughout history, it is written in history that Baghdad was lit even at night because of it as Caliphs like Harun Al-Rashid ordered scientists and scholars to reaserch the liquid and its usages other Caliphs gave rights to families and tribes to oil fields to extract and protect them. And thank you Hikma for the advises in the end you seem to praise what is happening in term of modernisation of Saudi Arabia and try to diverse their economy, thank you for being fair.

Im glad you made another for everyone. Thanks man, i appreciate your work.

Keep it up Hikma!

Excellent presentation!! 👍🏻

Insightful, informative, educational, and refreshing to view Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 through another lense. Thank-you my friend 👍🇺🇲🕊️

Love your videos!! It's always refreshing/healthy to view subject matter from a different perspective. Thank-you my friend 👍🇺🇲🕊️

Very interesting! Your analysis of / advice to Saudi at the end seemed heartfelt. When I was younger, I think I might have said 'No, go faster..' but now I think you're right - go slow and get there 👍😊

Thank you brother🥇

Always interesting!

there's a problem with subtitles, there's a large wall of text throughout.

Thank you for your expertise and for giving us insights into middle-eastern (geo)politics!

Another hikma history W

Very well done. Thanks for the knowledge shared.

Great vídeo Thanks for sharing, from Brasil 🇧🇷

Advice at the end was crucial. Great video, thank you

What a great documentary! Thank you.

Great vídeo Thanks for sharing, from Saudi

You’re very right about the oil being a curse for some oil-rich countries. As for Iran, this oil has brought nothing, but disaster after disaster… Well done as usual, by the way!

My whole perception of Saud family changed because of this video. جزاكم الله خيرا

Love to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan 🇵🇰💖🇸🇦

Thank you very interesting.

God bless the kingdom 🇸🇦❤🇱🇾

Thanks 🙏

احسنت أستاذ احمد تعلمت من هاذه الحلقة الكثير

Oil being a curse is a very interesting point of view. I never thought about it that way.

Interesting what were the factors you were talking about regarding change? I think it's industrialisation,if you do no industrialise,changes won't stick

Teach truth

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Loved this. Can you make a video about how the Al-Saud came to be the ruling house.

Only 48k views, that's crazy. Also crazy how old these people get while still holding a lot of power

Another very interesting and educational video showing how Saudi didnt just squander their revenue but invested in the advancement of their society.

A story straight out of 1001 night's

Saudi arabia is simply ahead of it's others in the region . They're still improving by having different options by their decision to improving relations with Iran and China. They're not bothered by communism,capitalism or Shiaism.😊

I've never been so early

Watch 'The fall of the ottoman caliphate and the rise of the saudi kingdom' - Abu Khadeejah

we have sent 3.8 millions students to study abroad and lots of them got back 113000 still they have 2 to 3 years to be back

Well.actually but i give you general picture of business freedom so you should try to benefit of the day really we need to improve in our Marchant to get a good really ❤

Great kings they were

Thanks my friend 👍🇺🇲🕊️

"They found Oil" That's the video.

Good leadership? honorable people? Yes indeed we Arabs can play the great power game so good since ancient times we played the Romen and the Persian against each other for our benefit. Our allies trust us we have a stable government and culture and we are pragmatic people

Very informative, them Saudis are on manoeuvres!

I'm still saddened that SA developed in the same exact way that the US has, heavily car dependent to the point of a generational shift needs to happen. We're having it happen now sporadically but it's very regional and some implementations of multi-modal transportation are so bad it will end up killing people and muddying the water for a while (looking at you Toronto)

In one word the best way to describe Saudi Arabia becoming Rich is Oil

I didn’t know Wahabi influence was so important in the foundation of the country itself, no wonder they are the way they are today. Thank you for the video!

Oil is not the curse. The distribution of the wealth earned by oil is.

Brother, I recognize the amount of time and effort that goes into producing these high quality documentaries. My question to you is. When there are behind the scene points that are not mentioned such as the West's intervention and how Saddam was backed by the U.S. and Saudi to support the war against Iran and then some how the West encouraged Saddam's marching on Kuwait. Do you think it was to strong arm Saudi to allow the controversial establishment of the base in Saudi or do you think the Saudis were in on that part too, knowing all along that there was no real threat of Iraq marching on Saudi but such a move would not only line the pockets of the defense contractors and offer support to the struggling U.S economy. You see habibi.. If such important layers of the onion are not being peeled, then how can you put the full stop at the end of the documentary?

Well.actually really my children really iwill not forget it is good so i should try to help you but iwanna to tell you something is good so you must respect in your parents father and mother really you have a chance to look forward inorder to wine so for example when you lives in y😅parents and they are oldest people who haven't food organization but it is priority of the world so we would do anything for you but weak up in early morning that is enough olso i have been staying in sudi for along time really i weak up in early morning after braying at that time Iwas in jidda really i have been working for along time really it was a good so i should try to give you hope because you are my friends ❤😂

Good video, but it is just plain wrong to say that Saudi Arabia is 'providing a blueprint' Middle East. UAE, especially, but also Qatar, have been the real innovators in the region.

very much doubt he was 6'9. look at all the pictures he is standing with other Arabs who are similar in height, either there were many 6'9 Arabs around him or he was maximum 6'3

Holy s.h.i.t... respect... from brazil. Always thought saudis were the best in the region..

Summary: Oil.

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An exciting & assertive future is not in store for the Middle East with a more dominant Saudi state. One can respect the development that the family has spurred, but make no mistake about it their clan is built on Machiavellian antics, hardcore American support and an autocratic approach to the Muslim world which they treat as their stooges. It’s high time folks (especially non-Arab Muslims break their romanticism with the kingdom) see KSA for what it is despite the apparent glamour

اهمل جانب مهم من القصة، الا وهي قصة دور المخابرات السعودية والامريكية لمحاربة السوفييت وصناعة تنظيم القاعدة بتشجيع امريكي.

By Allah’s will.

I still can't see how oil wasn't the sole cobtributer to the Saudi's power along with their strong relations with the West. And what blueprint do they provide for the neighboring countries ?? You mean having a ton of money?

هل تعتقد ان خروج تركيا من الناتو و عدم اعتبار قطر اكبر حليف للناتو من خارج الناتو يحقق بعض الاستقرار و الامن اقتصاد و علوم سياسيه و علاقات دولية في الجغرافيا السياسية ؟؟!! و ما سر ان الناتو مثلاً يدعم غزه من خلال تركيا مثلاً و اتفاق ايران و قطر على ذلك ؟؟ هناك فجوات و تناقضات رهيبه

This royal family is an example of how to run a country 👏🏼👍🏼

Is that esua??

Yeah, natural resources tend to be a curse. It allows for the government to raise revenues detached from the civilian population. The rising tide approach is favored by most nations as it ensures collective prosperity. As the wealth of citizens rises, so does the GDP and in turn tax revenue. However, in countries endowed with abundant natural resources, the importance of citizens' wealth diminishes as it is not the primary source of revenue.

The era of oil has ended

long live King Faisal! the greatest Saudi ruler

Abdul Wahab was NOT a sunni. His own father and brother and surrounding scholars wrote fatwas declaring him outside the fold of Sunni Islam. Do your research properly

Oil.

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Through charity, prayer, doing God’s will, and chopping up their enemies with bone saws!

Hเพาะทีแรกไม่อยากพูดเพาะกลัวทายาทและลูกลูกของคิงบลิวตะเกิดอันตรายทั้งสี่คนคุะ

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You didn't mention MBS's crackdown on Muslim Scholars.

Freedom for Palestine...

Angry Ottoman and Khedivate noises

Easy three letters answer : OIL

their oil and gas are more exploitable and hence more profitable with a low native populations There are tons of oil rentier prosperous countries which are unsustainable just like Saudi Arabia so you are wrong

Do the rest of Saudi citizens have any rights to lead their country

Emir Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Or Emir Muhammad bin Naif should be the next King instead Of MBS.

What country in Asia has OIL and is among the poorest in the world? the answer is NONE. The country with the most corruption and mismanagement is Nigeria and that's not in Asia.

Obviously haramco.

Me when hear anything bad abou MBS : No one is perfect

13:45 Trump the dump😂

Dud you mention the betrayal of Saud to shariff Hussein of Mecca and how the British supported Saudis? How they took lands from the kindom of Yemen and later killed Yemeni Pilligrims?

In the name of Allah, The All-Merciful, The Ever-Merciful I Sultan (King) Abdul Aziz son of Abdul Rahman Al-Faisal Al-Saud acknowledge and admit a thousand times to sir Percy Cox, Great Britain’s Ambassador, that I do not mind to give Palestine to the poor Jews or others as deemed fit by Britain which I do not contradict in opinion and that until the hour comes.

This is my least favourite of the videos. Maybe it's my own bias because of my strong criticism of Saudi Arabia's leaders (not their people) and their extreme Wahabbi ideology they've spread and how much trouble/fitna and decimation across the Islamic world. With the exception of the criticisms of MBS, this feels like too much of a puff piece video. The video fails to show how modern Saudi Arabia was formed in the aftermath of WW1 where the British supported and funded them in defeating the Ottoman Empire. They went onto further strengthen the House of Saud and Ibn Saud in the 1920s and 30s. Hikama History, you've failed to mention this which means you haven't done your research, or more likely, deliberately omitted this due to your own bias. That's a real shame. Obvious flaw here. You also fail to mention how Saudi often treats Asian and African immigrants, many of whom are Muslim, abysmally and in a most racist manner (heard horror stories from relatives and family friends on their time there or when going 9m Umrah or Hajj to Mecca or Madinah via Riyadh or Jeddah). Not criticising all Saudis (I actually had to do some roll play training with Saudi Telecom staff a few years ago and loved theme staff, so humble) but you've conveniently left out details in their history which would show a bad side to Saudi which you don't do when covering Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. I doubt Saddam would've invaded Saudi Arabia.

O Saudis, go and liberate Palestine. Jerusalem harkens you.

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So black gold (oil) can be as much of a curse as a gift. I think most people would choose black gold even if it is a curse. This video claims there are number of countries with natural resources but are among the poorest countries in the world. Really? Like Brunei? The Sultan of Brunei is one of the wealthiest man in the world. Does not Brunei have the natural resource of black gold or black crude oil? What about Qatar, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, ... where would they be without black crude oil? This video also claim that Saudi Arabia is a regional powerhouse and it has nothing to do with oil. Is that true or is it another lie? Did you see what Saudi Arabia was like before 1933? Before oil? You have got to be kidding or you are a liar. Let me ask. Can Saudi Arabia become a regional powerhouse without black gold, black crude oil? The answer is an obvious "no." Saudi Arabia would be like Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ... without black crude oil. Only an idiot or a liar would claim Saudi Arabia would be a regional powerhouse without black crude oil. You can believe in your own lie but anyone with a brain would know you are lying. The last great suggestion was to not change too fast. So why has Western Europe and its colonial descendants surpassed other countries in the world. Western European, the US, and Canada has shed its dependence on ancient beliefs and governance by an all powerful autocracy. Guess what? That is exactly what the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still suffering from. The people of Western Europe have changed. The people meaning people of all socioeconomic class. For a society to change most of the people have to change. The warning of not changing too fast is the fundamental problem of third world countries like Pakistan, India, Saudia Arabia, Communist China, ... They send a handful of intellectuals to England, France, or the US to learn some technical skill, these technical skills are brought back to their backward country, but most people still think in traditional ways. The foreign educated few cannot change the traditional masses. If the foreign educated few try to change their society the traditionalists would explode into violence. The majority of third world people do not have access to a decent, objective education. If they did have a decent, objective education they would overthrow their leaders with absolute power and really change their society. The Americans had to overthrow King George III. The French had to overthrow King Louis XVI. You have to change now or you will never change. Saudi Arabia has a King. Western European countries have true Republics. Change must happen now or it will never come.

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I'll save you some time. The answer is oil.

Tell truth Anit no new Europe

CIA

saudis give half of their oil free to the west. otherwise democracy will come so so fast to saudi arabia.

Dictatorship doesn't work in the long term? What is a "long term" for you? Just asking because it works pretty well for China...

They got their start up loot,. Looting Karbala,.

This land belongs to the family of Prophet Muhammad pbuh not the goons of saudi family who will face their destiny soon when the Messiah arrives and kicks these vagabonds into the sea!

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We shouldn't use the Orientalist terms Wahhabism. We use the term pure Authentic Islam that the Prophet Muhammad, salalahu alahi wa salaam practiced. When someone wants to return to the Authentic teachings of Islam that's not extremism that's Islam. Mixing Islam with Western values and others is extremism.