Princess Sultana: Her Life, Her Struggle

Name: Princess Sultana: Her Life, Her Struggle
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SKU: 9788576844259
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Your life, your struggle

Autor: Jean P. Sasson

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Sinopse

Impressive and moving, this volume completes the Princess Trilogy, in which writer Jean P. Sasson records the testimony of an Arab noblewoman hiding under the pseudonym Sultana. The names of the story's protagonists have been changed, but the events are rigorously real, revealing the atrocities committed against women under the complacent gaze of the clergy and political authorities of Saudi Arabia. Here, Sultana revisits a decisive moment in her life, when she nearly succumbed to depression and alcoholism. Around her, dramatic events unfolded: among many other events, she sees her niece given in marriage to a man with a sordid past; discovers that her cousin is keeping teenage girls imprisoned in a harem; and witnesses the brutal execution of two women on frivolous charges. Scenes of horror such as these ultimately pull Princess Sultana from her torpor and compel her to embrace her commitment to female dignity in the Arab world—a role she courageously plays to this day.