Just as we have recently re-elected president Obama, Saudi Arabia welcomed their new interior minster, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef is the son of the late Prince Nayef, members of Saudi ruling family. Something I never realized though is that we have the exact same situations in America, just on a more subtle scale. So many of people in government come from well-to-do families, they're just not as prominent as the families in the MENA region. It seems that ruling families are always in the forefront of civil society and the state, and in the United States people never know of candidates' lineages until they look them up. I wonder if there is a stronger sense of following family lines in the Middle East.
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