Jean Sasson

"In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell you. hink of a Saudi Arabian princess and what do you see? A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind the veil, she is a prisoner, her jailers her father, her husband, her sons. Sultana' is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the King. For the sake of her daughters, she decided that it was time for a woman in her position to speak out about the reality of life for women in her country, whatever their rank. She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one, until her husband decided to take a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants. In contrast to the affection and easy camaraderie amongst the women, she relates a history of appalling oppressio

Princess

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. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. 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. 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. 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. Throughout, however, she never tires of her quest to expose the injustices which her society levels against women. 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.

Princess 2

Daughters Of Arabia

Esu bin Ladeno sūnus

Desert Royal

After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of the last book: Dr Meena - the woman who helps abused women to heal and fight for their rights, and Fatima, the mother of twin daughters who, once abused and abandoned by her family, now works for the Princess in one of the royal palaces. Here too, are the stories of other Muslim women - women who are struggling with human rights abuses from across the region - from Pakistan, Syria and Northern Lebanon - and the many innocent victims who suffer the consequences of ISIS's march across the Middle East. This new book will attract both Jean Sasson's many loyal readers and new audiences eager to learn more about not only how the Saudi Royal family live, but how with courage and determination the Princess continues the fight for equal rights for women in the Middle East.

Princess: Secrets to Share

One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child

For the Love of a Son

The Complete Princess Trilogy

Ester's Child

Offering fascinating stories of triumphs and heartbreak, this long-awaiting new book by Jean Sasson and Saudi Princess 'Sultana', reveals what it means to be a Saudi woman today. When Jean Sasson's book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Timesbestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling new book, Sasson and the Princess 'Sultana' return to tell the world what it means to be a Saudi woman today. Through advances in education and with access to work, Saudi women are breaking through the barriers; they are becoming doctors, social workers, business owners and are even managing to push at the boundaries of public life. Major steps forward have, undoubtedly, been made. But this is not the whole story. Sadly, despite changes in the law, all too often legal loopholes leave women exposed to terrible suppression, abuse and crimes of psychological and physical violence. For many, the struggle for basic human rights continues. This fascinating insight will include personal stories of triumph and heartbreak, as told to Princess 'Sultana', her eldest daughter, and author Jean Sasson. Each of these stories will offer the reader a glimpse into different aspects of Saudi society, including the lives of the Princess, her daughter and other members of the Al-Saud Royal family.

Princess: More Tears to Cry

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life. A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp,but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. But then her brutal husband stole him away far beyond his mother's reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while civil war and Taliban oppression raged back home in Afghanistan. Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of Princess, chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.

Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious 'Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.

Love In A Torn Land

It all begins with an ad in the newspaper. When Jean Sasson, a young Southern woman living in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia, what should have been a two-year stay turns into a life-changing adventure spanning over a decade. Over the years Jean is plunged into the hidden lives of the veiled women in Riyadh, where women are locked in luxurious homes and fundamentalist mutawas terrorize the streets. Jean meets women from all walks of life--a feisty bedouin, an educated mother, a conservative wife of a high-ranking Saudi, and a Saudi princess the world knows as Princess Sultana--all who open a window into Saudi culture and help to reshape Jean's worldviews ... the first installment in a heartfelt, inspiring memoir about Jean's thirty-year travels and adventures in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq.

A Memoir

American Chick in Saudi Arabia

Daughters of Arabia

PRINCESS describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country.

A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary autobiography, Princess, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. In Desert Royal she continues her story at a period of crisis in her life when she reveals her shameful secret - especially so in a Muslim country where alcohol is forbidden - that she has a drinking problem. The forced marriage of her niece to a cruel and depraved older man, and her discovery of the harem of sex slaves kept by another cousin, makes her more determined than ever to defend the rights of women in her country. Her cause is given an extra sense of urgency against the backdrop of increased dissent against the Al Sa'uds, and the looming spectre of Islamic Fundamentalism.

The haunting sequel to Princess recounts Princess Sultana's story of her two daughters, growing up within and rebelling against religious zeal and the male-dominated society of Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi Arabian Woman's Intimate Revelations about Sex, Love, Marriage-And the Fate of Her Beautiful Daughters-Behind the Veil

Princess Sultana's Daughters

Während Sultana sich weiterhin gegen die entsetzlichen Missstände wehrt, die saudischen Frauen ihre Persönlichkeitsrechte rauben, wachsen ihre beiden Töchter Maha und Amani behütet auf. Aus einem relativ gemäßigten Elternhaus stammend, werden sie erst mit zunehmendem Alter immer stärker mit den frauenfeindlichen Gesetzen des Landes und ihrer Religion konfrontiert. Dramatisch und schockierend schildert Jean Sasson wie sich Maha und Amani in zwei völlig unterschiedliche Extreme hineinsteigern. Sultana - unerschütterlich in ihrem Kampf gegen die Ungerechtigkeiten, die Frauen in Saudi-Arabien erleiden müssen - stürzt die Entwicklung ihrer Töchter in tiefe Besorgnis. Trotz aller Widrigkeiten versucht sie ihre Töchter zu unterstützen und ihnen einen Weg zu zeigen, mit den Sitten des Landes umzugehen. Sultana weiß: Ihr Kampf für eine bessere Zukunft für ihre Töchter ist noch nichts vorbei. Nach ihrem mutigen ersten Buch "Ich, Prinzessin aus dem Hause Al-Saud", das ein Welterfolg wurde, erzählt Jean Sasson nun die Geschichte von Sultana Al-Saud weiter.

Ein Leben hinter tausend Schleiern

Ich, Prinzessin Sultana, und meine Töchter

In einer Welt, in der Frauen für wertlos gehalten werden, steht sie für diejenigen ein, für die sonst niemand seine Stimme erhebt. Jean Sasson erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Sultana Al Saud, Prinzessin im Königshaus Saudi-Arabiens. Versteckt hinter ihrem schwarzen Schleier ist sie jahrelang gefangen in einem goldenen Käfig und wird Zeugin erschreckender Unterdrückung. Sie muss entsetzliche Taten mitansehen, die in jeder anderen Kultur als schockierende Verletzung der Menschenrechte gelten: 13-jährige Mädchen, die in die Ehe zu weitaus älteren Männern gezwungen werden, und junge Frauen, die aus fadenscheinigen Gründen brutal ertränkt oder gesteinigt werden. So verlangt es die Jahrhunderte alte saudische Tradition. Doch Sultana kann und will das nicht akzeptieren. Sie versucht mit allen Mitteln, die ihr zur Verfügung stehen, gegen die Unterdrückung der Frau vorzugehen - und verleiht somit denjenigen eine Stimme, die seit ihrer Geburt dazu gezwungen werden zu schweigen. Sultana lässt uns einen Blick hinter die Wände ihres goldenen Käfigs werfen. "Ich, Prinzessin aus dem Hause Al Saud" bezeugt das Leben einer Frau voller Mut und mit unerschütterlichem Geist.

Ich, Prinzessin aus dem Hause Al Saud

In this incredible true love story, bestselling author Jean Sasson shares Joanna al-Askari's personal journey of fear and fortitude through a Baghdad childhood and life as a Kurdish freedom fighter during the Iran-Iraq War. Inspiring and unforgettable, Love in a Torn Land shares Joanna's passionate and unflagging determination to survive and fight—for love, life, and the freedom of her beloved Kurdistan.

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