Sultana is from the highest rank in the country and the book tells of those within the lowest as well as do Sasson’s other books. Just remember this is not a story every Saudi Arabian woman faces or every Muslim woman for that matter. Pick this book up you want to read about human rights abuses (I don’t want to label then women’s rights, because then we become a separate class by doing so, instead of being considered human from the first) and how things are in Saudi Arabia and how they have been for a long time. Quality was the same, except for a few spelling mistakes, but that was because I read it on Kindle. If you like the first one you will like the second one. Also her own sister’s lives and sister-in-laws.Īgain, really well written and I read it in a day, which was quick. Her son Abdullah gets his own chapter too, but mostly it is about the daughters from Sultana’s eyes. Maha and Amina, both very different on the surface, with their brother trying to keep peace between them along with their mother Sultana. The story deals with Sultana’s two daughters. There are also quotes added from different sources in the beginning of each chapter which is poignant. The book takes a lot of time clarifying the passages from Koran which allow certain things and don’t allow others. Then this deals with the extremists of Islam, the fanatics and how they only serve themselves without actually reading the Quran/Koran. In her courageous campaign to improve the lot of her own daughters of Arabia, Princess Sultana once more strikes a chord amongst all women who are lucky enough to have the freedom to speak out for themselves.I becomes clear from the first that if the first book dealt with human right’s (or lack of them) in Saudi Arabia.

Throughout, however, she never tires of her quest to expose the injustices which her society levels against women. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pilgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities.

Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she depicts with equal colour and authenticity.

Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they reacted in equally desperate ways. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

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