The Call | Part One

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The Call | Part One
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Today we welcome Krithika Varagur, author of the brilliant new book, The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project.

Krithika Varagur is an award-winning journalist who covers Indonesia for the Guardian and has reported widely from Southeast and South Asia for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times.

In her new book, Krithika Varagur has doggedly pieced together an entire picture of Saudi religious funding and its effects more thoroughly than any other journalist has done.

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The Call
Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project

The Call lays out what we really talk about when we talk about Saudi money, and illuminates the global sweep of its ambitions over the last century.

“Varagur wisely allows many voices to be heard—and shows how Saudi influence is now more transparent but still insidious.” —Kirkus ★ starred review