Description

The study deals with a critical issue that can be reconceptualized as the deconstruction and analysis of the Western public opinion perceptions of Saudi Arabian society. This study has uncovered the image of Saudis in multiple Western cultural and intellectual writings. This research paper also investigates the profound and historical impacts of such intellectual writings on the Western mindset through the re-analysis of its stereotypical paradigms. This research also highlights the state of contradiction of the Western policy makers who are in limbo between the discourse of Oriental fantasy and the pragmatic calculations concerning the strategic hegemony of Saudi Arabia. This study presents three core ideas: the strategic power of Saudi Arabia, the status quo of confrontation between Islam and the West and its influence on Western minds, and finally the analysis of Western perceptions of Saudi Arabian society with specific concern on the American, German and Spanish cultural discourse.