With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes observation analysis and extensive interviews she navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped and reveals the sometimes contradictory nature of the nation that is simultaneously a final bulwark against revolution in the Middle East and a wellspring of Islamic terrorists. Saudi Arabia finds itself threatened by fissures and forces on all sides and On Saudi Arabia explores in depth what this portends for the countrys futureand our own. show more