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Summary: What happened?
Review: She's beautiful, smart, and well cared for. She has three loving children she can provide excellent care for. She had already aired the dirty laundry of the lives of Saudi women in her first book, "Princess."SO WHAT HAPPENED? There was little focus on Sultana's daughters, and I was expecting some sort of conflict-resolution to result as I concluded this work, maybe in the form of her older daughter being ripe for marriage combatting society. Furthermore, there was a lot of redundancy, as she took it upon herself to explain parts of the first book in the second book. I would die for one percent of this woman's material wealth. It's phenomenal, almost sickening. I'm going to read the third book now, so wish me luck. :)
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Summary: Wow, what can I say?
Review: After having read the first book in the Princess trilogy, I was eagerly waiting for this book. Princess Sultana's Daughter's exceeded my expectations. This book was extremely well written and I felt like I was watching everything unfold in front of me. Some parts of this book are uplifting, others are really funny, and some parts are sad. On the whole, I thought it was wonderful how this book talked about Saudi life and the Muslim religion. I would recommend this book if you desire to learn about Saudi Arabia or their customs and are looking for an entertaining read.
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Summary: Raises more questions than answers
Review: This book presents itself as a credible account of a princess's life in the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia. This is the second book in a three book series; "Princess" is the first and "Princess Sultana's Circle," the third. Through this book the princess discusses the devastating effects of oppression on her daughters. She desrcribes her daughter's extreme actions through their lives as evidence of the effects of inhumanity suffered by women. This is life for an isolated family whose wealth is so extreme it's hard to believe others in the same country experience similar situations.
I recently read the first book in this series and was spellbound. I was transfixed by how unyielding muslim life for women can be in Arab countries so I also read "Honor Lost" which is a book about honor killings of women in Jordan. I wondered how the dialogues could be so script perfect in that book but then I read that the author of that book is having her credibility challenged and the book is being pulled by the publisher. As it turns out she may have spent her entire life just outside Chicago and not in Jordan as she claims.
I also read: "Reading Lolita in Tehran" - and loved how the author described her reading circle in Iran and that story was very believeable; and "The Sewing Circles of Herat" which is another well written book about courageous women in Afghanistan who find ingenius ways to preserve their culture without raising suspicions.
I know that the Taliban in Afghanistan was mercilessly brutal to women. There was no such thing as due process and certainly no mercy for almost anyone. Now what about other muslim and/or Arab countries?
I think so much of this has come to western attention because we still find it so hard to believe that anyone would fly a plane into a building and kill himself and so many innocent people in the name of God. The muslim faith and teachings of the K'oran have become very confusing to me. So are our western sensibilities being exploited by authors and publishers capitalizing on our need to have greater understanding or is life really this suffocating for muslim women or maybe some of both?
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Summary: Memories
Review: I am an arabic young woman, and i loved the book. Princess Sultana conveys her opinions and she had the courage to stand up and tell the world what she was going through. Such activities of torture and harm which were described in the book, are not allowed in arabic countries and they are unacceptable in out faith as Muslims. Our Prophit Says that a boy and a girl are equal in everything. As for the practice of having more than one wife has a reason, which is because of the need of a husband to have children if his wife is barren, so he marrys a woman other than his wife and he keeps his original wife for a very important reson and so that loved ones are not seperated , because having mistresses is not allowed in our faith. BUT that does not mean he is allowed to be unfair between wives (Ex. spending more time or money on one more than the other) , Islam INSISTS on the importance of fairness between wives. and that men who will not be fair with their wives are not allowed in islam to marry a second because he would be harming his wife. Arabic women are educated and are working in very high positions. the world has changed a lot since her diary has been written and published, and arabic countries have became so much better. the things that sultana's family were doing are not right things, and they must not be mistaken to be the way that arabic families are. You must keep this in mind when reading this book.
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Summary: Good book, but not what I expected
Review: I was required to do a paper on this book for my government class. Well, I had other books to choose from, but I love to read about Royal families. This is a very well written book, but what the Saudi women go through is very sick. I must say that I admire Princess Sultana for standing up for what she feels is only fair treatment for women. This book also exposes all the secrets of how the women royalty get treated like doormats. I think it is high time that the Western world sees what really goes on across the globe. Since when is it alright for a husband to have numerous affairs when the wife is required to wear a veil in public and not even associate with a man who is of no relation to her? They already have more than one wife as it is, then they are allowed mistresses and nobody says a thing about it. I give a lot of credit to Princess Sultana that she did not allow her husband, Kareem to take on another wife and she put an end to his affairs by threatening divorce. Princess Sultana sure kept Kareem in line. Princess Sultana's oldest daughter Maha ended up rebelling in her own ways. Then her son Abdullah's friend escaped with a girl the family knew to be together. Now my friends, would such a step be nessary if there were no such restrictions as to who they are to marry or not to marry? Here is a family of enormous wealth, but of very little happiness. I don't mean just problems with Princess Sultana's children, but of her brothers, sisters and relatives as well. Princess Sultana clarifies that she strongly believes in the Koran and from her explanations in the book, it seems that her faith does not condone treating women like they are subhumans. As I stated in another review, and it is quoted in this book: Mohammed did not ever state that a girl born is less than a boy. In fact, Mohammed states that a girl born is just as much a gift as a boy born. I may not have the exact wording here. This book makes for interesting as well as educational reading.
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Summary: Single in Saudi
Review: If you read "Princess" you would be wasting your time reading this follow up book. Nothing has changed in Saudi Arabia or in Sultana's life and in the long run - after 911 - who cares. What is most not believable about the narrative is that "she", Sultana, contradicts herself repeatedly. It is almost impossible to believe that her husband, and her husband alone, would allow her to conduct herself in a manner that goes against everything the arab male stands for - a female with a mind and will of her own, even a wife, that he would allow this female to dictate to him even in his own home, no less. Sultana does not always get her own way but I cannot believe she never suffered physical and a great deal more mental and emotional abuse than she says in this book. Not convincing. Again - who cares.
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