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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book (and all of the Princess collection) are absolutly amazing! I found them thrilling and captivating. Yet this is much more than entertainment couragous Sultana's stand is an example to all (especailly women). I realize more than ever now, how truly blessed and privilaged I was to be born and raised in America.
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Summary: No, No, No!
Review: I had trouble finishing this book. First of all, she speaks of how her maid, Jada, is forced to toil to pay for her education and her brother's education. Sultana then goes on a few chapters later to spend $400,000 in a department store, and even later, discusses how her family is worth $900,000,000. A bit of hypocrisy there, don't you think? If she was so concerned with her maid's plight, she would probably paid off her education, no questions asked. If she's so concerned with the plight of women, then why doesn't she care when she buys overpriced sweatshop clothing from the same stores she purchases entire sections of? Furthermore, what can I say for a woman who is so big on talking about how religious she is, yet gorges herself on alcohol, cigarettes, and thinks nothing of her drug - abusing relatives? It's one thing to TALK about something, and another thing to DO something about it. This book exists to show off and create a self-absorbed attitude about a woman who can't even give her real name, yet put her picture on the cover of all her books. What's the point anymore? A trilogy of books, yet they're all redundant and hurtful in the way they rub in her wealth and her "better than thou" status.
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Summary: Arabian Culture
Review: A profound look at the male dominated culture and its repercussions on the family unit. It makes one thankful for being an American. Still, women of royal lineage are put through the most unimaginable tortures for wrongdoings according to the religious law of the land. A good primer for focus on the reasons for the separation of church and state.
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Summary: Extremely intriguing study of women in the Middle East
Review: I ran across this book while living in the Middle East. Always facinated by the secret life of Saudi women, I eagerly devoured the book. Jean Sasson was given privy to the inside life of Princess Sultana and what she faced on a daily basis. The princess comes off as a woman who strives for justice and equality for her countrywomen but is silenced by the harsh rules set forth by the men. She tells many heart breaking stories of brutality by the men, including rape and physical abuse but of course they are not punished. She is completely powerless unless she manipulates males including her husband to get her way. On the other hand, she speaks of such wealth in the families and their extravangant lifestyles which include many vacations in their various homes and of shopping sprees that only one can dream of! in the end, all the money in the world cannot buy freedom and peace of mind.
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Summary: Sultana you are a true Princess
Review: I really had my eyes opened to the plight of women who are govened by an out of date male dominated society, the frustration these women must feel, really overwhelmed me. With no voice in Politics or religion in there country they must feel know one is listening but we are!. My thoughts go out to these women. Jane Sasson has again written a very well balanced account of the lives of some of our sisters from the east.
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Summary: Vapid and Insipid!
Review: I bought this book, because I was intrigued and fascinated by the topic and the rather unusual publishing history. However, I was sorely disappointed. What a shame that such an important and riveting subject such as the hidden lives and sufferings of women in other cultures is treated in such a childish and vapid manner! Granted, Princess Sultana is a real person who is recounting her story, but that does not necessarily imply that this story should be presented as one of maturity and triumph. The final insult to women's suffering all over the world is Princess Sultana's post-mortem adulation of Princess Diana and her humane work. Can and should we really leave the never-ending struggle for women's dignity world-wide to rich, bored, psychologically disturbed twits?
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Summary: the sadness of sultana
Review: This book is truly moving.I have been brought into another world of muslim women hidden behind the strict religion of islam. It inspires me to work for the rights of these helpless women and change what i can. I hope it opens the eyes of myself and other western women who were blind to this inhuman act of cruelity and restricted freedom. Although I am 13,i hope to be famous one day,and make enough money to at least help a minority of these women.The book will truly inspire you to become a better person,working towards helping the women and girls of tomorrow. eimer
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Summary: This book has awakened me to a nightmare
Review: I have read the Princess Sultana's Circle and as a United States citizen of Asian & Phillipine descent the description of a certain "Stallions" section in a member of the royal families' "garden." The account of the sexual abuse and imprisonment of children who could very well have been related to me if my ancestors had not left the Phillipines has made me ill. I wept because I feel so helpless to protect those innocents from the brutality of amoral men who would violate these babies. Knowing of this has made me aware that there are things in the world that I can never ignore and that some things are worth your life to expose and correct. I have learned things that will haunt me for the rest of my life, but I have vowed to be as brave as the Princess when I am called to prove myself as a person with a worthy soul. This book will stay with any woman for the rest of her life after reading this and my prayers go out to those children every day. Every woman is my sister, but some of those who are suffering may be my blood. Read this book if you want to be conscious and awaken your conscience.
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Summary: Always Wondered!
Review: When I first bought this book, I was expecting some shocking stories, but not like that! I'm origenally from Kuwait; we have problems of our own but we never had twisted stories like that, we as women, work in kuwait, wear what we like as long as it is decent, and we are free to do what we want as long as it's reasonable, I feel sorry that saudi men treat saudi women in that way, I wish I could do something for them to help them, I can't do that because they have to help themselves first; let someone hear them, and then we as arabic muslim women might do someone to help each other."My prayers goes for you Princess"
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Summary: Absolutely Riveting Read!!
Review: I literally inhaled the first book, Princess and am waiting for the second book,Sultana's Daughter. I've just read this one, and I'm telling you, these books are ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!! It's really amazing that such barbaric customs exist!! However, It worries me a bit that people who read these books are going to confuse the Islam religion with these horrific and barbaric incidents that Sultana has reported. As a recent student of Islam, I wish to tell you that Islam, while their customs are very different than that of western customs, (wearing of the scarf or veil is to protect their beauty from the stares/advances of strangers,male and female), their Holy Book, the Quran, does NOT CONDONE such barbaric things as harems, and family-killing for punishment,etc!! What's going on, is a horrifying account of,(and perhaps even misguided,fanatical) supposedly Muslim men who, out of their misunderstanding of what their own religion is about, live life in a very UN-Muslim,indeed, UNHUMAN way!
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