Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudia Arabia

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Summary: great book
Review: Told in the first person voice of Princess "Sultana", this book will grab you from the beginning.

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Summary: Pull back veils of western ignorance
Review: Unbeknownst to so many western females the plight of our Middle Eastern sisters can be appalling. I removed my own veil of ignorance and read frightening accounts of this privileged muslim woman as she is controlled and manipulated by the men who purportedly love her. The most powerful weapon against any form of brutal oppression is education. I want to read the other books in the sequence by this author as well.

I regret that feminism has taken a back seat during recent years but I don't often forget that woman are still not equal anywhere. However, after reading this book and others written by muslim females in the Middle East, I know how far western women have come in comparison to some cultures such as those in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban was worse but not by much.

I don't take my freedom for granted.



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Summary: This is incognito????
Review: While I don't doubt that many of the atrocities cited in the book have occured at some point or another (there are too many outside corroborating accounts of such doings)and the book tells a facinating though tragic story, I wonder how this princess could possible remain incognito after having given so many very specific descriptions of her family. I could change my name to Micky Mouse, but if I gave as detailed a picture as the "princess" has, my family would spot me a mile away. Or maybe the Royals don't read, listen to the radio, travel out of the country, converse with others outside their family... Oh wait a minute! They do! So, what gives? I have other thoughts about this book but most of them have already been written about here so I'll leave it at that.