Rating: 
Summary: One of the best books I've Ever Read
Review: I think this book should be required reading for every American woman! The women living this life "in bondage" need a voice. Thank God Jean Sasson has been able to get the message out. Read it - and pass it on to everyone you know!
Rating: 
Summary: Princess, A True Storty of Life Behind the Veil
Review: I would also like to recommend a new book called "Single in Saudi" by Genia. It is the true story of a single American female in Saudi Arabia who broke all of the rules in the Kingdom to live as normal an existence as she could and got away with it. Her experience is so different from the Princess it is an interesting study in contrasts and a funning and informing read.
Rating:
Summary: Princess
Review: Was unable to put the book down until completed even with two small chn around.
Rating:
Summary: As good as it gets
Review: This book about Princess Sultana Al Saud is the best book I have ever read--and I am an avid reader. The book is written in such a past-faced, fun manner that you learn so much without even realizing it!There are two sequels to this book, that although not quite as good, merit a read. Enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Highly recommend
Review: If you have any interest in women's issues, this is the book for you. It's the most incredible book I've ever read. Once you start reading it's hard to put down. I also highly recommend the remaining books of the Princess Sultana Trilogy.
Rating:
Summary: A scary account of how women are treated
Review: I bought this book and read it all in one day. I couldn't put it down. It is a very disturbing story of how women live in Saudi Arabia. I find it appalling that men have so much control there and twist the Koran to their liking. Although Princess Sultana seemed luckier than other women, I would hate to live her life. She and the other princesses may be wealthy but they will never have the freedom that we do in the West. Reading this will make you appreciate all the freedom you have such as driving your car and being able to travel without permission from your husband or father. If there is one thing that disturbed me the most was the brutality of the men in Saudi Arabia. They are barbaric and without conscience or emotion. The Saudi men Sultana describes shocked me with their actions. They claim to be religious but have no problem killing their own daughters or wives. Even the way they execute the women is brutal. If anything, when you read this book, you will want some agency to step in and do something to help these women.
Rating:
Summary: Timely and informative
Review: With the increasing focus on the Middle East, I approached this book in a somewhat skeptical fashion - wondering if the issue of women's rights in Saudi Arabia could be discussed without prejudicial Western commentary. Thankfully, this book succeeded. I believe that this book accurately describes the hardships faced by women who are prevented from discovering their full potential through the mis-intrepretation of the Koran. I agree that all women should read this series and work in their own way to educate themselves about the lack of rights that some of our sisters suffer.
Rating:
Summary: Can you believe it?
Review: I bought the book around 6 o'clock in the evening and I couldn't put it down until 2 o'clock in the morning. I read all three books in three days. This story is so sad but is such an eye opener for many of us, it really teaches us to be grateful for the many freedoms we enjoy in our western world. I recommend this book to every woman and to teenage girls, they will learn early in life to don't give for granted the life that they enjoy.
Thank you "Princess Sultana"!!!
Rating:
Summary: The Truth.
Review: It is an amazing book. It made me understand why she has had to write it in another name. This book is one that, wether you like it or not, it brings you into touch with the kinds of things and people that we are living with today and sadly enough, unable to do very much about. The way she lives shows us living in Europe and America and places like that, just how lucky we are. It was one I couldn't put down even though the things I was reading greatly desturbed me at times. I have a great amount of resect for her and thanks has to go out to Jean Sasson for bringing these happenings to us. For any one who likes a gripping book, one that you get totally involved with, then here it is.
Rating:
Summary: The veil is ripped asunder
Review: I think this might be the saddest book I ever read. "Sultana", a Saudi princess from one of the highest-ranked families, smuggled her diaries and her story to author Sasson, who has written a skillful but heart-wrenching tale about the life of women in Saudi Arabia. Anyone who has a mother, a wife or daughters and is also curious about the mores in Saudi Arabia ought to read this book. Sultana is, of course, not the real name of the princess. She and her children would suffer horrible consequences were it publicly acknowledged who she is. And that fact isn't really important for us to know; her story is the story of all too many women in some Islamic countries, and even in non-Islamic countries, for as she points out, Islam in no way dictates the torture, mistreatment, multilation, rape or murder or women as right. In the back of this book is a section presenting the relevant passages of the Q'uran in translation, where women are discussed. In other non-Islamic countries, women are also married to rich old men, burned on pyres to avoid paying out inheritance, and imprisoned in purdah. Yet women risk their lives each time they give birth. Why then shouold women be treated less than animals in any society? Is it the desire to have absolute control over the output of a woman's womb or is it a primal fear of the power women have as the first nourishers, they who can, but for the natural bonds of love, deny the stuff of life to any of us? The traditions in some Islamic countries since the Middle Ages, and maybe before, dictate that women have no human rights. They are executed for being raped (presumed to have seduced the rapist.) They are starved, tormented locked for a lifetime in a windowless room for girlish pranks, stoned for possible adultery, denied education and ignored. They aren't allowed to testify as true witnesses in court--the testimony of a woman has the same validity as hearsay in our legal system. A footprint in sand has more impact. Non-Saudi women have even fewer rights--in fact,none at all. They are bought and sold as slaves. What makes this book more than a recitation of horror stories is the personal history of her own childhood, marriage and motherhood. Sultana opens the book with an anecdote about her brother; he coveted an apple that their cook had given to her. She ate that apple, and like Eve, was richly punished for it. How? You must read this for yourself. Is what happened to Sultana and her friends a case of extremism, only found in, perhaps certain circles in Saudi Arabia? I can only say that I know one Saudi family and one type of treatment of women reported by Sultana also happened with them: the wife was summarily divorced and sent away from her children. And, a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia told me of seeing a black bag hanging on a tree along side the road he took to work. It dripped blood for days. On inquiry, he found out it held the body of a women who had been found in a room in her home with a male cousin. She was stoned and left hanging there. Her father threw the first rock of the many that pounded her slowly to death.
| 
