Princess
by: Jean Sasson
I accidentally packed all my books down into the lugage that went into storage my last day in Dubai. I had 9 hours to kill after I had checked out from the hotel so I had a loong lunch, went shoppng for 5 hours and there decided to buy a new book that I could read until I got hold of my lugage. I had 4 hours to wait for that and then 2 hours at the airport.
So I walked into a bookshop and spent about an hour in the shelves there looking around. For some reason I wanted something about the middleeast and when I came to the biography section this book just jumped out at me.
And oh my god did it jump me. I read non-stop at a cafe for 3½ hours, then airport & on the arport I had to force mysel to try and get some sleep. I finished it in Vienna long before my flight was due to board.
Its a true story about a Saudi princess that got all the luxury in the world, execept human rights. She is a woman ie an animal with no rights to vote, drive, speak etc. She talks about friends that gets killed by their parents due to emberassing behaviour, men that rape young girls, servants etc.
Its about wearing bourka, forced marriages to men never met, and the total control that men have over womens lives in Saudi. It also talks about the jealosy of muslim women in other middle east coutries that ca drive cars, are not forced to cover their faces. How muslim sees other religions and nationalities that all women outside saudi is hores!
I was in shock the whole time, but now after wards I just have to get my hands on the two sequels to this book.
I give it 5.
page count: 5772 + 303 = 6075
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