Saudi Arabia: Closed kingdom

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Elliott House has been visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for more than 30 years, and in her new book, On Saudi Arabia : Its People , Past , Religion , Fault Lines — and Future, she skillfully unveils this inscrutable place for regional specialists and general readers alike. “For millennia,” she writes, “Saudis struggled to survive in a vast desert under searing sun and shearing winds that quickly devour a man’s energy...

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