The Long Reach of Female Genital Mutilation Jayne Amelia Larson Society & Culture As an American woman living in Los Angeles, I’d rarely heard about and knew next to nothing about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)—it simply wasn’t in my sphere of awareness. But I assumed it was an...
Reporting From the Kingdom: An Interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Karen Elliott House Jayne Amelia Larson Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Government, Society & Culture In this exclusive interview, long-time Wall Street Journal editor and author Karen Elliott House speaks with writer Jayne Amelia Larson on how being a woman gained her unparalleled access to the lives of women in Saudi Arabia. She also provides insights on a life in journalism at a time when women were a relative anomaly in the newsroom.
Maids in Mecca—Not Quite…: An Analysis of Saudi Arabia’s Culture of Servitude Jayne Amelia Larson Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Government, Society & Culture For Saudi royal servants life isn’t as glamorous as that of their employers: writer and actress Jayne Amelia Larson, author of Driving the Saudis, examines the inequalities of working behind gilded bars.