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Summary: too general
Review: I appreciate the efforts that went into this true story but, I found it too sketchy. I never felt as though I was there with the author. I was hoping there would be some other stories and facts from other women in the royal family. This is an ok book for someone that wants a quick read without much detail.
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Summary: All of Ms. Sasson's books
Review: I have been a follower of the Middle East, as several of my family members have worked there. Some in the medical field and I have found the books to be af sound truth and from the experiences of the young women to be most disturbing. Ms. Sasson has really found out the true nature of how it was and sorry to report still is today. I have heard many first hand facts and find her books to be of nothing but the truth. I have read some of the other comments and find that ignorance does exist in this world, as the ones who have had negative responses must have had there heads burried in the desert sand. I do not know where they get/got there information from, but knowing what I know and how I came about the information I truley find the books most accurate. I send nothing but acculades to Ms. Sasson and hope to find more of her books in the future. As you can see from the negative comments - they are all anonymous. Why do you think they are? CHEERS TO ALL!
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Summary: True Story from a 10-year Resident
Review: How can anyone claim this book is untrue and the author doesn't know what she's talking about? She clearly states she lived there for 10 years. It seems many people still view life through rose colored glasses and refuse to believe such atrocities exist in this day and age. Well, Sultana ripped the veil from my eyes...forever changing the way I view the world. Princess should act as a wake-up call to all concerned with human rights abuses!
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Summary: An Enthralling but a Sad and True Story
Review: My wife and I lived and worked in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for many years and we saw for ourselves how many Saudi women were not treated like human beings. If there is anybody who thinks that Jean Sasson is not telling the truth, then we suggest that they see for themselves. It is a scandal the way women are treated in that country. This applies not only to Saudi women, but also to women of other nationalities as well who go there to work! Believe us when we say that it is a most sad thing to be a woman and live in Saudi Arabia!
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Summary: Heart Of the Matter
Review: In this book we meet the Saudi Arabian Princess Sultana, who goes into great detail about human rights violations commited against the women of Saudi Arabia. Sultana is fiery and smart and refuses to fall into line. The book also features many stories of the oppulent wealth enjoyed by the royal family. This is a book to learn by, and a must read!
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Summary: Pricesss
Review: I have read all of Jeans Sasson's works and have found her books to be page turners. Also, a friend of mine once worked in Saudi Arabia in the medial field, and I ahppen to know form this person that nothing reported in her books are an exageration, that the Saudi men are notoriously cruel when it comes to treatment of women. They treat their camels or their livestock much better thant they treat their women. Anyone who writes in and says this is not a true picture of the life women lead in that country quite obviously has an agenda.
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Summary: Tale of a `True Spoil Brat"
Review: I don't fel any pity towards Sultana as she is a spoil brat. Sure there are a lot of negative aspects to their culture (at the time that this book was written) but Sultana did not even bother to follow the positive ones. Example: she did not even show any respect towards her mother in law. Anyway, I have to give credit to the author for managing to diferentiate between Islamic religion and Arab Saudi culture. Sasson and other authors on this subjects should also extend their research to other Islamic countries for better understanding.
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Summary: Additional Truths about this life Behind the Veil
Review: I am an unbiased reader, yet one with first-hand knowledge of social customs of Saudi Arabia. I lived for over 8 years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and worked as a nurse in the King Faisal Spec Hosp and Research Ctr. Anyone with the slightest understanding of the Kingdom and the manner of life for women in that country is fully aware that the stories told in Princess is the sad reality of life for women in that country. The only people who have a hard time believing Jean Sasson are people who have never lived in Saudi or possibly jealous people who simply want to attack a good book. As a nurse, I personally cared for Saudi women at the hospital who had endured horrible acts of cruelty from their Saudi husbands. I can say with certainty that many of the stories told by Jean Sasson are duplicated many times over in the daily lives of women in that country. I took care of a 13year old girl, who was suicidal because she was being forced to marry a very old man in his late 60's. She considered herself bright, and she was, and wanted to be educated and have some choice later in life who she was to marry, but this was her parents decision. They would either give drug therapy or electrical shock in some cases to make the women more compliant! I was the nurse in charge when a Saudi princess was locked away in a private room in the hospital. She had been abducted from the West by her own government and was forced to return to the Kingdom. The look on that poor woman's face when she discovered she had been drugged by her own American doctor and brought back into the country on a private jet, I will never forget! (The American doctor and his wife had accompanied the Saudi woman, and they went shopping daily, returning to the hospital with priceless jewelry that had been their payment for the duplicity. It is not only Saudis that can be unfeeling when it comes to women!) To tell the truth, there were so many unbelievable horror stories, that I personally witnessed in that hospital, that I could write a similar book myself! I must say, that I love the way Jean tells the story. It is wonderfully readable and the stories remain with the reader forever. I recommend the book to all my friends and thus far, to a person, everyone has read the book straight through. If you want the real truth of Saudi Arabia and the lives of the women who live there, then I recommend this book. Signed "A nursing professional who worked for many years at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Reasearch Centre"
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Summary: A MUST FOR ALL WHO ARE INTERSTED IN HUMAN RIGHTS
Review: I read this book about three years ago and I thought that it really described the princess' life. I could not believe some of the stuff that she had to go through. I brought the book without knowing what it was about and have read it again about three times! I have read both sequels to it and thought they they were as enthralling as this book. The princess herself is not a perfect Muslim and she knows it, but still you feel for her. If you have any sense (and money! ) please buy it!
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Summary: Beyond the Veil
Review: I found the book Prinncess heart wrenching it is the story of a Saudi Arabian women ,the story of her childhood and her subsequent arranged marriage to her cousin Kareem. As a western women who is free i cannot possibly know how Sultana must feel never getting the chance to experience life as I do and one day my children will.
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