Karen Elliott House
Auteur van On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
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- Karen Elliott House, 64, retired in 2006 as Publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Company, and a member of the company’s executive committee. She is a broadly experienced business executive with particular expertise and experience in international affairs stemming from a distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and editor. Currently, she is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author of “On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future,” published in September 2012 by Knopf.
Ms. House served as the Journal’s publisher from 2002 until her retirement and in that role was responsible for all news, editorial, sales and other business functions of The Wall Street Journal and its editions around the world.
From 1989 to 2002 she served as vice president international and then president international of Dow Jones, responsible for The Wall Street Journal’s print editions in Asia and Europe as well as for magazine and television ventures overseas. These included representing Dow Jones on the boards of CNBC Asia and Europe, the Far Eastern Economic Review and Vedomosti, a publishing partnership in Russia.
During a 32-year career with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Ms. House also served as foreign editor, diplomatic correspondent, and energy correspondent based in Washington D.C. Her journalism awards include a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the Middle East (1984), two Overseas Press Club awards for coverage of the Middle East and of Islam and the Edwin M. Hood award for Excellence in Diplomatic Reporting for a series on Saudi Arabia (1982).
In both her news and business roles, Ms. House traveled widely over many years and interviewed world leaders including, Saddam Hussein, Lee Kwan Yew, Zhu Rongji, Vladimir Putin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Natanyahu, Saudi King Abdullah, Hosni Mubarak, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, Helmut Kohl, George H.W. Bush, the late King Hussein and Yasser Arafat.
Ms. House also has appeared frequently on television over the past three decades including on Washington Week in Review, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation when she was based in Washington and more recently on PBS, Fox, CNN and CNBC. She has addressed many audiences in the U.S. and abroad as an executive of the Wall Street Journal and as an expert on international relations.
Ms. House has served and continues to serve on multiple non-profit boards including the Rand Corp., where she is vice-chairman, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, the German-American Council, and Boston University. She also is a member of the advisory board of the College of Communication at the University of Texas.
She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where in 1996 she was the recipient of the University’s “Distinguished Alumnus” award. She studied and taught at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and she holds honorary degrees from Boston University (2003) and Lafayette College (1992). She also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ms. House is married and is the mother of four children ages 17 to 39.
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In her preface, she claimed to be in touch with this country for over 30 years. Unfortunately, she delivers a mix of Wikipedia injected with American media narrative with steroids.
If you’ve watched power puff girls, the cartoon starts with Professor Utonium mixing sugar, spice and everything nice. He stirs all the ingredients and poof, Power Puff Girls appear (drum rolls). In a similar fashion, Wikipedia, Fox News CNBC and inject a bad narrative — poof this book appears.
The more I read, I became disappointed. If you walk over to an Average Joe in the West, he would regurgitate the same info and narrative of this book. Unfortunately, if this is where people in the West learn about a society which is non-Western, I say it’s bad scholarship.
I do not practice Islam. However, I want to take an effort in understanding a culture which I am not familiar. I'd rather not paint a narrative. Eg: "Wahhab preached a pure version of his Islam" Well, I am ignorant on various theological factions of Islam.
I am a non-Westerner reading this book. I am also a non-Saudi. I am a casual yet extremely curious observer of other-cultures. I wish, I could hear what a scholar who grew up in the Middle East comment on this society. A Scholar who has lived in both worlds.
Oh, I can think of Patrick Smith who wrote a book on, "Somebody Else's Century." He's a Westerner living in Asia (China, Japan, India). He was able to understand Asia (China, Japan, India) far more than any Westerner that I have encountered.
Patrick was more aware of intricate social concepts which are absent in the West.
I would not recommend this book to learn about Saudi Arabia. I am not sure what to recommend.
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