Gain Desert Royal Formulated By Jean Sasson Rendered As Print

just can't finish it, . Too boring when I was reading this a few years ago, I always felt that things are much exaggerated, So I sepent some time going through the background stories, and surprisingly, they are not that much exaggerated, The book mainly focuses on a higher class family, so the true situation of a woman in an Arabic country is left to imagination, The writer had done a poor job in planning the flow of the story, maybe because her main objective was not making a great literature work, but making it a socio cultural weapon.
SPOILER ALERT

My first Jean Sassoon book, and willingly, it will be the last,
A socalled true capturing of the life of Sultana a Saudi princess, Sultana tells the story of her disgust with the backwardness of Saudi men, their mistreatment of women, how women in Saudi Arabia are controlled by their male family members, and how sexual slavery in Saudi Arabia is not uncommon especially among the royal family.
Although Princess Sultana herself had not been in such a position since her husband Kareem is one of the very few men in the book who are not accused of abusing and assaulting women.
Sultana begins by telling the story of her niece, a princess too, who had been forced into marrying a much older man, So far the book is agreeable, but when she uncovers the story of a couple of her own sisters being abused, a friend, a group ofgirls or more held in a royal prince palace as sexslaves, the story of an Afghan maid, another Pakistani maid,etc.

The list becomes too long, you start doubting the credibility of the author Sassoon and the princess together, Yes they probably didn't makeup stories , but the book is stuffed with so many examples and memories of abuse, stories that are told one after another, in a manner similar to a list being read out, rather than a story being told.

Sassoon and Sultana together didn't waste a chance to emphasize on the unimaginable wealth in which the Saudi royal family is indulged,
Nor did they waste a chance to blame Islam for all the retrograde life described in Saudi and the Middle East,
The overall image, does not differ than that depicted in Disney's Aladdin: big, bearded, wealthy, savage men ruling the desert, women veiled and functioning as nothing more than sex machines.

The book portrays Sultana as the "exception" to the rule, she's the so called openminded princess who enjoys taking off her veil whenever she can, drinks alcohol, shops at New York's fanciest stores, weeps heavily on the scene of/.
. just anything that will make a western reader accept her and praise her openminded thinking, A quite lame image.
For meneither the author nor the princess gained my respect,
My view on the Saudi community is quite the same, I've never been fond of the Saudi Royal family so this didn't exactly come as a major shock.

Overallyou'll hate every part of the book, especially the fake truthfulness it was intended to sound like, The book has all the drama and emotion, A woman realizing her strengths and weaknesses, You could capture little bursts of beautiful description and metaphors but the writing could have been better,

And then you realize all this is real, As real as it gets, And the perspectives come crashing down on you, And I'm reluctant to call it a good story/book because of this very fact,

To anyone who wants to read about a female who fights for her rights, this is a good book, It's such a shame reading about a dysfunctional "nuclear" family with problems like all regular normally human all over the world families and then disgrace and stamp a whole nation to be like wise.
That was related to the first few chapters,

Later on. . comical, fictional and unbelievably boring, I'd say the childish book, В книгата действително се съдържат ужасяващи истории за жените от Саудитска Арабия, но поголямата част се върти около охолния живот на Султана, проблемите, които има една разглезена принцеса, създаваща си сама тревоги и депресии и според мен страшно безхарактерна, която освен да рони сълзи, друго не може да направи, за да помогне на жените в тази държава да имат права. Дори ми се струва много грубо м/у истинските проблеми на тези хора да разказва как е оставилаза дрехи и бибута САМО за един ден! Изтеглих си и другите книги, но определено не мисля да си губя времето с тях! This book is all about the secret lives of the Saudi ladies who live behind the veil,
The first book of Jean Sasson "Princess" talked briefly about her, Now in this she is trying to change the rule of the female in her own country, So she tries hard with every woman in need to help,

Her life is meaningless because she don't have any goal till the day when the daughter of her brother Ali said that his daughter Munira is going to marry his best friend.
The friend of Ali the one who is sexually abusing women and the one who raped small girl in Egypt,

This made her and her sister Sara get angry and tried to stop the marriage but the talk of the men was above everything,

From there her journey started and she tried her best with everything,

One thing she did right is when she freed Veena the Afghani woman from Shadi the son of her sister Dana,


The book talks about the rule of the women and how with small acts they can change things,
Continued the unbelievable life of the brave Saudi princess, . . it is incredible that so much wealth and power prove powerless in the face of medieval notions about women and how they should be treated, . . women seem to be right at the bottom of the list of animals and things for Saudi men, It is encouraging to see that courageous women like Princess Sultana and her sisters are trying to wring changes in their unbending society while constantly fearing persecution every moment by their own men.
As for the indulgences that many reviewers have found unacceptable, I think that these are few privileges that keep Sultana going in the midst of so much frustration and failures.
This is a tale of men with great wealth and power, whose morals have lowered to such an extent that they seek their pleasure at the expense of others.
This is a tale of woman who, despite having the means to obtain almost anything they desire at any cost, cannot gain their ultimate desire: Freedom, This is a tale of oppression, in which women have no right to map out their own futures, but instead are married off as young girls to men twice their age and are treated with the utmost brutality.
This novel unveils the ugly truths hidden beneath masks of greatness, wealth and power, This is reality

This book is the third book in the Daughters of Arabia series, the first being the internationallyacclaimed book Princess, which provided a shocking expose on the lives of Saudi royalty by narrating the truelife account of Princess Sultana AlSaud as a young girl born into a life of wealth and privilege as a member of the AlSaud royal family.
In this book, we are taken through Sultanas life as a married woman with two daughters, Maha and Amani, and a husband she has grown to love a rare occurrence in Saudi marriages since women are often forced to wed men who do not suit their tastes.


In this book, Sultana speaks of her despair and disillusionment in the face of helplessness when attempting to fight for the cause of Saudi women, After witnessing the marriage of her niece, Munira, to an evil and heartless older man, Sultana turns to alcohol in an attempt to drown her sorrow, She speaks of the many Saudi women within the royal family who abuse drugs to avoid facing the pitiful reality of their lives, We learn that men have more privileges than women and that it is not unusual for Saudi men to be unfaithful to their wives, We come across a cousin of Sultanas who maintains a private harem of young girls ranging from eight years of age and we read of the brutal treatment inflicted on women and the injustices practiced in the name of religion, when in fact, most of these practices go against the teachings of Islam.


This book moved me to the depths of sorrow and the heights of fury, It was, nevertheless, interesting, informative and provided valuable insight into the lives of one of the richest families in the world, This book proves that wealth cannot provide happiness and after reading it, I am grateful for the fact that I live in a country that acknowledges womens rights, I would not trade freedom for all the wealth the world has to offer, I would recommend this book to those who are able to read a book filled with tales of injustice and brutality without tearing it to shreds in a burst of fury.

This book rates/.
Loved it. I Could not put it down, A splendid piece of true account, The author has put forward the ill moral characters of the Saudi Men before the whole world in a candid manner,

Being a Muslim and holding great reverence for the KSA being the birth place of Prophet Muhammad PBUH, I was disgusted to learn how the men behave and their attitude towards women.
Islam amp Prophet Muhammad teach us to be humble towards the females and never to exercise force against them,

However, the Saudi's do behave like sex lunatics, I have heard even this that if you are in KSA

then board a taxi first and get out of the taxi after your wife has done so, After reading this I totally believe this,

I'd love to visit KSA in near future and hope that till that time Princess Sultana's efforts have materialized and women are not oppressed rather enjoy the freedom Islam entitles them to.


I am so eagerly waiting for theth part as it is in the pipeline, Would recommend Princess series to all my friends to read, Though many criticize the princess for escaping from most of the harsh treatment of women in Saudi just because she's royalty, she did have the courage to share those stories with us, including her own.
How do we young females who have much, much more freedom than the princess ever did, bring her down She might have had things better than the local Saudi women, but we have it way better than her.
I think we should applaud her for doing the most she can, while all we do is sit and read and comment, Kudos on the uplifting ending on how much progression has occurred in that country, It's painful but a need to read, Forget how annoying it feels to read about a rich woman with privileges complaining about her problems and her helplessness, when she has no discipline over herself, or seem to exert any intelligent behaviour towards the oppressed with the resources she seems to boast about, . . the stories are disconnected, bland and imposed to convince that there are so many sufferring coz nobody is taking an action! But they do not actually stimulate any sympathy or empathy towards these women!
I'd have given atleast one more star if the writing style could make me feel the pain.
when i finished reading this book , i realized how little changes take a lot of effort , effort on the part of princess Sultana and the support of her sisters.
Of how there are different worlds within our world , of which we have no knowledge at all,
It was an unforgettable book , an unforgettable trilogy, Some more anecdotes of women discrimination in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and poor Asian countries similar to as in last two sequels, And how Princess Sultana is trying to make an effort to change some women's lives inspite of helplessness she faces and her struggle to abstain herself from alcohol, which acts as a temporary solution to all the turmoil in her mind.
This is the third book in the Princess series,and by now things have become a bit repetitive, My another read of the same author, After readingbooks, I have realised that there is nothing new she has left to add, Rich family, cruel men, women suffering in the hands of men, all the stories in the entire series sound same, I guess she has left nothing else to tell, It has been quite some time since I read the first two books of this trilogy, The life of Princess Sultana has been of interest to me the previous times, I was taken back with the revelations and the truth spoken without fear about women in Saudi Arabia, This book held quite the turmoils in it but as my mind developed greatly the past years, I had less of an interest in it as a book but greatly as a cause.
There were many great moments in this book where Sultana stood up for women and even when the situation turned sour, she remained unfazed, I also got to read about her own personal issues with drinking and it was a great example of how we must defeat our own weaknesses and demons in order to live out the life we planned.
Money royalty and luxury is nothind when compared to freedom, This is what i felt after reading this book, Women are born to marry and reproduce, and the unbeleievable sexual desire of men in that country and their brutal behaviour towards women, . . is shocking. . What they lack is respect and freedom, This will change definitly. . but it will akes time as the people in saudi arabia are very much fundamentalistic, .