Invitation to WFPG Program at IIE: Karen Elliot House

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ON SAUDI ARABIA:

ITS PEOPLE, PAST, RELIGION, FAULT LINES—AND FUTURE

Monday, March 11, 2013, 12:30 p.m.

Luncheon and Program

Institute of International Education

809 UN Plaza, 1st Floor Board Room

(1st Ave., between 45th & 46th)

New York, NY

Space is limited. Advance registration is required.

IIE will be hosting a luncheon and program of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group with author and journalist Karen Elliot House on Monday, March 11, 12:30 p.m. at 809 UN Plaza/1st floor conf. room.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Karen Elliott House has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then as publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Her book, On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future (2012), explores all facets of life in this country. Through observation, anecdote, extensive interviews, and analysis House navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped and reveals the mysterious nation that is the world’s largest exporter of oil, critical to global stability, and a source of Islamic terrorists.

Karen Elliott House, author of On Saudi Arabia, is a broadly experienced business executive with a distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor. Currently an adjunct senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School, she 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. During a 32-year career with Dow Jones and the Journal, House also served as vice president international and then president international of Dow Jones, foreign editor, diplomatic correspondent, and energy correspondent. Throughout her career she has interviewed numerous world leaders including, Saddam Hussein, Zhu Rongji, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi King Abdullah, Hosni Mubarak, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, and Yasser Arafat. House’s journalism awards include a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the Middle East (1984), two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Edwin M. Hood award for Excellence in Diplomatic Reporting for a series on Saudi Arabia (1982).

Click to see the invitation for details. There is a special registration fee of $25 for IIE members. To take advantage of this special offer exclusively for IIE members, register online at www.wfpg.org. Fill out the registration form, then enter IIE-MEMBER in the discount code field and click "apply" before entering your payment information. For questions about this event or issues with your registration, please contact programs@wfpg.org.