Philippe Pétriat Lecturer (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and researcher at the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History (IHMC and at the French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences (Cefas)). (Kuwait). The Painful History of Epidemics in Saudi Arabia Philippe Pétriat · May 2020 For Saudi Arabia, the Covid-19 crisis is just another episode in a long series of viruses which have struck the Kingdom since the Spanish flu of 1919. When Saudi Arabia announced its first Covid-19 case on 2 March 2020, it seemed to many Saudis that history was repeating itself. While (…)
