Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed has written an important and insightful piece on Saudi Arabia's brutal and failing dictator.

Click here to read it in the Washington Post:

An excerpt: "The prince wants all to praise his plans and join the propaganda machine that his coterie of aides presides over. His cult of personality is pervasive and all-encompassing. It has become sacrosanct, above all criticism and in constant need of being worshiped by citizens. Those who fail to pay homage to the “Son King” commit a crime by omission."