Talal Mohammad is an Academic Visitor at the Middle East Centre at The University of Oxford, UK, where he obtained his DPhil on Iran-Saudi Relations. Since 2015, he has been giving expert strategic consultancies and geopolitical analysis with a focus on the Persian Gulf to a range of institutions and enterprises.
This extraordinary account breaks new ground by drawing upon Arabic and Persian sources to provide an analytically distinct, compelling, and highly original examination of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran and how narratives in each country have evolved and interacted over four turbulent decades. -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Baker Institute fellow for the Middle East, Rice University, US