Here you won't find the pages of a pedantic journal, praises to fantastic places or accounts of memorable encounters. This is a collection of stories, thoughts, images, and most of all odd stuff, even though to someone else it might actually look ordinary. To discern its bizarre side, in fact, special filters are needed: cynicism, fussiness, stubbornness, isolation, impudence, nosiness and nerdiness. All flaws that, in different measure, this semi-nomadic being has got embedded in his genes.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Princess - Jean Sasson
Sultana, a princess of the Al Saud royal family, decided to tell the story of her life through the pen of Jean Sasson, an American author. Her main purpose was to expose the pitiful situation, at the time of her youth, of women in Saudi Arabia, a country dominated by men, where the most significant event in their lives seems to take place when they are handed over as private property from their fathers to their husbands, which in most cases they are not allowed to choose by themselves. We don't know, of course, if all that is said in the book is true or if some aspects of it have been exaggerated. For sure there have been criticisms, accusations and even conspiracy theories about it. What we can say is that it's not difficult to imagine a society in which women don't enjoy the same freedom and opportunities as their male counterparts, as in different degrees it has been like that, and still is, all over the world and across all eras.
Read it even if you're skeptical. Or maybe precisely because you're skeptical.
Labels:
arabic,
arranged marriage,
books,
human rights,
literature,
middle east,
saudi arabia,
women
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