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Author Sasson, Jean P.

Title Princess : a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia / Jean Sasson.

Imprint Atlanta, GA : Windsor-Brooke Books, ©2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 S252P    Check Shelf
Description 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Series Princess trilogy ; bk 1
Note Includes index.
Contents Childhood -- Family -- My sister Sara -- Divorce -- Ali -- Trip -- Journey's end -- Girlfriends -- Foreign women -- Huda -- Kareem -- Wedding -- Married life -- Birth -- Dark secrets -- Death of a king -- Woman's room -- Second wife -- Escape -- Great white hope -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Appendices: Koran on women -- Laws of Saudi Arabia -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Index.
Summary A Saudi woman discusses what life is like for women in her country, describing how women are sold into marriage to men five times their age, are treated as their husbands' slaves, and are often murdered for the slightest transgression.
Subject Sultana, 1956-
Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions.
Princesses -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.
ISBN 0967673747
9780967673745
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