board of trustees for RAND Corporation since 2009. She is married and is the mother of four children. Books On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (New York: Alfred P. Knopf, 2013). Kingdom of Sand and Cement: The Shifting Cultural Landscape of Saudi Arabia by Peter Bogaczewicz, Edward Burtynsky, Rodrigo Orrantia, Karen Elliott House Viewpoints Karen Elliott House mentioned on her book "On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future" believes that Saudi Arabia's internal problems are deeper than its external problems, and that while finding a job for the new generation of unemployed youth has become a big problem in the absence of high oil revenues, the best thing that Saudi regime can do in this situation, magnify the chaos in the region, in the eyes of his people, to such an extent that Saudis consider Al-Saud's relative stability better than anything else. References External links Journalist's website Living people People from Matador, Texas The Wall Street Journal people Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners 1947 births Moody College of Communication alumni