By Jean Sasson
From Publishers Weekly
Sasson's sequel to Princess: a real tale of lifestyles at the back of the Veil is one other page-turner comparable via "Princess Sultana." A member of the royal relations of Saudi Arabia, Sultana now's married to a innovative prince, yet this privileged prestige doesn't shield her or her daughters from the country's repressive legislation opposed to girls. even though a religious Muslim, Sultana believes the entrenched male energy constitution has perverted spiritual doctrine to justify veiling ladies and depriving them of simple civil liberties. the shortcoming of chance to forge equivalent relationships with males earlier than and after marriage, Sultana argues, is why one in all her daughters turned fanatically non secular and the opposite suffered a psychological breakdown. This eye-opening account is proscribed to existence one of the royals instead of a critique of Saudi Arabian society, even if Sultana describes the brutal customized of lady circumcision practiced through the poor.
Copyright 1994 Reed enterprise details, Inc.
From Library Journal
In this sequel to the preferred Princess: a real tale of existence in the back of the Veil in Saudi Arabia (LJ 7/92), Sultana maintains her stunning and extraordinary tale into the following iteration. Feeling that males are often on the root of woman grief, she argues that it's the responsibility of the discontented like herself to hunt swap in order that her children's iteration can have a few aid from the oppression that stifles Saudi women's lives this day. The ebook is greater than that-it supplies perception into the lives of royalty and the perspectives of these who may be spiritual whereas flaunting the stern Sunni ideas opposed to alcohol and transitority marriage. This booklet charms the center and will be a favored merchandise for basic collections.
--Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville
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We even went to church camps. I believe Mom was a devout Christian. She and I went every Monday night to Bible study with a converted Jew who had gone blind studying the Bible. His own family had his funeral when he converted. His name was Brother Joseph, and his Bible study was so in-depth I was mesmerized. This man loved the Lord! His love was so beautiful, and his spiritual knowledge was so awesome. I saved my money one summer and bought him the New Testament on records. I was given a great understanding for someone so young.
They didn’t take into consideration that he was also short — less than six feet tall. Someone six foot three, like me, with a much bigger bone structure and frame, shouldn’t be starved down to that size and still be expected to perform at full strength, but that was ou’s philosophical mind-set then. This is the same system that had produced Jim Weatherall, an All-American tackle and pro football defensive tackle who weighed over 270, yet somehow, with the influence of people like Roberts, they had bought into a “small and quick” concept and tried making all of us fit their concept instead of taking full advantage of our individual skills, including strength and size.
If I came back still in a bad mood, I had to run it again. Some days Mom would take me to school on her way to work, but mostly I walked or rode my bicycle through my grade school and even junior high days. In high school, riding a bicycle to school wasn’t cool, so I walked. This was another example of the insecurity that exists when we gain our self-esteem from our peers instead of from our Lord. Sometimes my mother took me to school when I was in high school. We would pull up to the front entrance, where all “the boys” — the top athletes and school leaders — would congregate.