But all is not perfect because there are many powerful men in Saudi Arabia and some of these men do everything in their power to keep women in purdah. This is big news in their world and it is making women bolder than ever. Thus far, he has freed all the women who were imprisoned for driving and sentenced to floggings by the religious courts.
But the big surprise is that the women of Saudi Arabia have a friend who is sitting on a throne, and the person on the throne is the very forceful king of Saudi Arabia. Women are driving openly and taking their chances with the mean-spirited clerics, who like nothing better than to harass women. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Exclusive interview with International Bestselling author Jean Sassonįrom writing Princess More Tears to Cry I can tell you that Saudi women are changing their world and that Princess Sultana is bringing their victories public. She details the difficulties inherent in raising d With candor and humility, Sultana shares the joy, frustration, and dark intervals of my fear of Saudi Arabian motherhood and marriage. Amani's fundamental fanaticism threatens to destroy her mother's personal quest to imporove women's lot in her native land. Once a sweet and placid animal-lover, Amani emerges almost overnight from her dormant religious faith and embraces Islamic beliefs with unnerving intensity. Amani, the youngest daughter, rebels in her way during the religious frenzy of Haj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah. When Maha becomes involved in a lesbian relationship, she ends having an emotional breakdown and requires psychiatric treatment in London. Described by her father as a girl of brilliant fragments, Maha's gifted mind cannot focus on one goal.
Yet, stilled by the unbearable restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, Maha and Amani have reacted in equally desperate ways.Maha is a headstrong beauty driven by fear and isolation due to Saudi Arabia's feudal justice. Although Sultana lives with a constant fear of retribution-even death at the hand of her own father or brother, her passion to provide her two daughters with a better life transcends her fear and fuels her desire for change.As second-generation members of the royal family who have benefited from Saudi oil wealth, Maha and Amani have known nothing but opulence and wealth from the moment of their birth. Today, despite untold wealth and privilege, Princess Sultana cannot buy the rights and freedoms women in other cultures possess, for herself, or for her daughters. During her own youth, Sultana chafed under the harsh social system into which she was born. Now, the princess and Jean Sasson turn the spotlight on Sultana's two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani. Reader's of Princess Sultana's true story, 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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