By Jean Sasson
All of it starts with an advert within the newspaper. while Jean Sasson, a tender Southern lady residing in Jacksonville seashore, Florida, solutions a choice to paintings within the royal health facility in Saudi Arabia, what must have been a two-year remain becomes a life-changing experience spanning over a decade. through the years Jean is plunged into the hidden lives of the veiled ladies in Riyadh, the place girls are locked in sumptuous houses and fundamentalist mutawas terrorize the streets. Jean meets girls from all walks of life--a feisty bedouin, an informed mom, a conservative spouse of a high-ranking Saudi, and a Saudi princess the area is familiar with as Princess Sultana--all who open a window into Saudi tradition and support to reshape Jean's worldviews. AMERICAN CHICK IN SAUDI ARABIA is the 1st installment in a heartfelt, inspiring memoir approximately Jean's thirty-year travels and adventures in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq. Jean's first e-book THE RAPE OF KUWAIT, in response to her eye witness reporting at the invasion of Kuwait through Iraqi troops, was once a right away bestseller. almost immediately thereafter she grew to become a full-time author. Her subsequent 3 books, PRINCESS, PRINCESS SULTANA'S DAUGHTERS, and PRINCESS SULTANA'S CIRCLE, turned overseas sensations as they have been the 1st books to convey to the western global the surprising tales approximately existence for girls in Saudi Arabia. Jean can be the writer of MAYADA, DAUGHTER OF IRAQ, in regards to the felony reviews of an Iraqi journalist praised through Saddam Hussein; LOVE IN A TORN LAND: the genuine tale of a Freedom Fighter's break out from Iraqi Vengeance which tells the tale of a pretty Kurdish lady; transforming into UP BIN encumbered: Osama's spouse and Son Take Us into Their mystery global; and FOR the affection OF A SON: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen baby. Her paintings has been featured in humans, vainness Fair,The long island instances, The Washington put up, the hot Yorker, the recent York publish, The Sunday London occasions, The father or mother, CNN, FOX, NBC, and plenty of different information firms. nonetheless touring the area, Jean has made her homebase in Atlanta, Georgia the place she is a passionate animal rights and women's rights supporter. compliment FOR JEAN SASSON'S BOOKS: “Fascinating...an intimate account of a family members existence that turned gradually extra harmful and bizarre...in compelled pursuit of Osama’s jihadist dreams.” --Washington submit "The startling fact in the back of veiled lives...frank and vivid" --Sunday convey "Anyone with the slightest curiosity in human rights will locate this booklet heart-wrenching." --Betty Mahmoody, bestselling writer of no longer with no MY DAUGHTER "A interesting narrative...devastating" --Robert Harris, Sunday occasions "Absolutely riveting and profoundly sad..." --People "A chilling story...a brilliant account of an air-conditioned nightmare..." --Entertainment Weekly "Must-reading for an individual drawn to human rights." --USA this day "Shocking...candid...sad, sobering, and compassionate..." --San Francisco Chronicle