Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
by Carmen Bin Ladin
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Author: Carmen Bin LadinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-06-13
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Warner Books
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Book Review: A fascinating insight into life behind the scenes in Saudi Arabia
Summary: 5 Stars
Carmen was born in Switzerland of a Swiss father and Persian (Iranian) mother. She frequently spent holidays in Iran with her mother's family, but had little contact with her father after he left them when she was nine.
Yeslam Bin Ladin was holidaying in Switzerland when they met and fell in love. They spent the early years of their married life in America, and there their first baby, Wafah, was born.
It was not until they moved to Saudi to further Yeslam's career, that any problems arose.
For many years Carmen lived under the repressive regime of Saudi Arabia, with severely restricted freedoms for all women. It was a life that we in the West cannot begin to contemplate.
When finally she broke away, it was concern for the future of her daughters that motivated her. she wonders herself whether things might have been different had she had sons instead.
This is Carmen's very personal account of her life behind the scenes in a country that has such different attitudes to ours, influenced heavily by an extreme form of Islam.
Please note: although this book has been paired with 'The Veiled Kingdom' by the same author, they are in fact the same book. The only difference is that this version has a post script added a year after the initial publication.
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