Ben Hubbard on the Mohamed bin Salman power grab | The Interpreter’s Need To Know

In this latest instalment of Need to Know, Lowy Institute's Lydia Khalil talks with New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard about how MBS carried out this power grab and enacted sweeping positive reforms, such as lifting the ban on women driving, movie theatres, concerts, gender mixing and pushing through economic reforms to relieve the Kingdom’s dependence on oil revenue – yet did so by embracing authoritarianism.