Saudi Arabia's Royal "Reformers"

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 9:30 p.m.

Last year, when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became Saudi Arabia's Deputy Prime Minister, the press fawned over his reforms in the arena of women's rights and business.  The Western media has devoted less coverage to his regime's human rights violations and destruction in Yemen. Georgetown University in Qatar professor Abdullah Al-Arian speaks to On The Media's Brooke Gladstone about the trope of the Saudi royal "reformers," where it comes from and why it persists.