Las Hijas de Sultana

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Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A., Jan 22, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 288 pages
"Tras las valientes revelaciones de Sultana, el libro en que la princesa contaba su calvario personal, Jean Sasson relata aquí la dramática encrucijada que afrontan las hijas de Sultana, la misma que padecen miles de adolescentes saudíes. Educadas en una sociedad intolerante e intransigente, Maha mantiene una escandalosa relación lesbiana y Amani abraza el fundamentalismo islámico. Ambientado en la Arabia Saudí actual, este libro es un crudo testimonio de la brutalidad y represión de que son objeto las mujeres en el mundo arabe"--Forro.

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About the author (2002)

Jean Sasson was born in 1947 in Troy, Alabama. She is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East. Sasson lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve years as an admisitrative coordinator of medical affairs for a specialist hospital. He books include: The Rape of Kuwait, and the bestselling Princess Trilogy -- Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess Sultana's Daughters, and Princess Sultana's Circle. She also wrote Growing Up bin Laden.

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