Top Highlights

• Foreigners made up about one-third of the kingdom’s population, and they did the economy’s heavy lifting.
• Wahhabism, the ultraconservative and intolerant interpretation that was woven into the kingdom’s history.
• President Barack Obama had little fondness for the place. Before becoming president, he had dismissed Saudi Arabia as a “so-called” ally and criticized its exportation of Wahhabism for fueling intolerance in the Muslim world.
• detaining another country’s prime minister to force his resignation;
• locking up other royals—including his own mother—